Creating a forum with the UserVoice API

create_forum.rb

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require "oauth"
require 'json'

# Trusted Client
KEY = 'CLIENT KEY'
SECRET = 'CLIENT SECRET'
SITE = 'http://your_subdomain.uservoice.com'

consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new(KEY, SECRET, :http_method => :post)
access_token = OAuth::AccessToken.new consumer

forum = {
  "forum[name]" => 'Exciting New Stuff'
}

response = access_token.post("#{SITE}/api/v1/forums.json", forum)
forum_hash = JSON.parse(response.body)

puts forum_hash.inspect