post text to tumblr on terminal.

Rakefile

task :default => :new

desc "Create a new article."
task :new do
  title = ask("Title: ")

  article = "<pre><code class=\"prettyprint lang-ruby\">
</code></pre>"

  path = "./#{title}.txt"

  unless File.exist? path
    File.open(path, "w") do |file|
      file.write article
    end
    puts "an article was created for you at #{path}."
    system("vim", path)
  else
    puts "I can't create the article, #{path} already exists."
  end
end

desc "Publish my blog."
task :publish do
  puts "publishing your article(s)..."
  `ruby termblr.rb`
  puts "Posted!!"
end

def ask(message)
  print message
  STDIN.gets.chomp
end

termblr.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
require 'tumblr_client'
 
Tumblr.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
  config.consumer_secret = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
  config.oauth_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
  config.oauth_token_secret = "YOUR_TOKEN_SECRET"
end


client = Tumblr.new
blog_url = "YOUR_TOUMBLR_URL"
Dir::glob("./*.txt").each { |f|

  title = File.basename(f,".txt")
  content = File.read(f)
  
  #post text queue
  client.text(blog_url, :state => "queue", :title => title, :body => content)

  system("rm","-f",f,f + "~")

  puts "delete #{f}"

}

puts "Posted!!"