Quick Ruby script to get libnotify desktop notifications of the current vote tally of your talk

code4lib-vote

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# To add this to cron do something like this to use the ruby wrapper script:
# */15 8-17 * * 1-5 env DISPLAY=:0.0 /home/jnronall/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.1.1/ruby /home/jnronall/bin/code4lib-vote > $HOME/tmp/code4lib-vote-cron.log 2>&1

require 'httpclient'
require 'json'
require 'date'
require 'libnotify'
require 'slop'
require 'fileutils'

opts = Slop.parse do |o|
  o.banner = %Q{
Usage: code4lib-vote --vote 33 --mytalk 655 --top 20 --timeout 15 --icon /home/jnronall/bin/images/ballot-box.png
}

  o.integer '--vote', 'Number identifying vote', default: 39
  o.integer '--mytalk', 'Number identifying your talk', default: 869
  o.integer '--top', 'Number of results to show in notification', default: 10
  o.integer '--timeout', 'Number of seconds to show the desktop notification for', default: 60
  o.string '--icon', 'Path to the icon to show in the notification area', default: '/home/jnronall/bin/images/ballot-box.png'
  o.on '--help', 'help', 'Show as: String,this help message'
end

if opts[:help]
  puts opts
  exit
end

http = HTTPClient.new
response = http.get "http://vote.code4lib.org/election/results/#{opts[:vote]}.json"
results = JSON.parse(response.body)

ordered_results = results.sort_by{|talk| talk['score']}.reverse

rank = nil
score = nil
talks_list = []
ordered_results.each_with_index do |talk, index|
  title = talk['title'].slice(0,30)
  if talk['id'] == opts[:mytalk]
    rank = index + 1
    score = talk['score']
    title = "<b>#{title}</b>"
  end
  talks_list << "#{talk['score']} #{title}"
end

top_talks = talks_list.slice(0,opts[:top])

message = %Q|<a href="http://vote.code4lib.org/election/results/#{opts[:vote]}">Code4Lib Vote</a>|
rank_message = "\nRANK: #{rank}\nscore: #{score}\nhigh score: #{ordered_results.first['score']}\n\n"
message << rank_message

top_ten = top_talks.slice(0,10)
# top_rest = top_talks.slice(10,top_talks.length)
message << top_ten.join("\n")
# message << "\n\n--------------\n\n"
# message << top_rest.join("\n\n")

puts message

# Change this to whatever desktop notification system you use
Libnotify.show(body: message, :timeout => opts[:timeout], icon_path: opts[:icon])

log_directory = "~/tmp/"
logfile = File.expand_path(File.join(log_directory, '/code4lib-vote.log'))
FileUtils.mkdir_p log_directory unless File.exist? log_directory

File.open(logfile, 'a') do |fh|
  fh.puts DateTime.now.to_s
  fh.puts message
  fh.puts "\n----------------\n"
end