My first quarter of Ruby I tried to build a Netflix API Wrapper (before I moved on to doing the Last.fm API wrapper when there were issues with the oauth gem for Ruby). I decided I would come back to it some day.
Just checked back with the Netflix.com Code Libraries page (http://developer.netflix.com/page/Resources), and it looks like someone has added a library called ‘flix4r‘. It said it was really incomplete, so I figured I’d take a look at the source and see what it might take to help out. With the availability of social coding site github.com and the incredibly stable and universally-accepted release platform of rubyforge.org, I don’t understand why the codebase is sitting in Google Code. No gem has been released to Rubyforge or Github.
On top of that, it’s using tools from ActiveSupport, which is a Rails package. I’ve not seen this done in pure Ruby gems before, but I’m sure it happens. I just don’t like how this code looks. The structure of this package doesn’t look like any of the Ruby libraries I’ve worked on. I’m really not the right person to criticize, but if I wanted to help out on this project, there are just too many reasons not to. So I think once this year’s Nanowrimo is over and I’ve got Wrimostats.com working fairly well, I’ll shift gears and get back to the Retflix gem I wanted to build back in December.
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