sinatra_blogomatic

Elevator Pitch: Modern email editors are 80% of what you need to edit the HTML of a website. Mobile phones, corporate work email, web email, are all basically good enough to write a simple webpage with basic formatting and inline images. What if we just considered those clients to be 'good enough' and relied on them as authoring tools for pet websites? I can easily write a post from my phone including a few photos, of my latest woodworking projects, and I can take a lunch break with my work email to muse on the latest current events. (Although I like to keep my work and home code separate - you do whatever you like.)

A rich content email can be automatically downloaded using the Gmail API, and then converted to a webpage for publishing. This project gets you about 60% of the way there.

It's MVP, it's untested, it's got tons of other bits that are not relevant. This is not here to be a resume booster. It's here to share some ruby gmail api code, because it was a bit of a pain to figure it out.

Please read the commit log for some caveats.

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Helpful articles about JSON Web Token and ruby:

http://www.intridea.com/blog/2013/11/7/json-web-token-the-useful-little-standard-you-haven-t-heard-about

Built using:

Sinatra

ruby-jwt

Clone this repo and run bundle

To start the sinatra server:

from sinatra_blogomatic/

First run bundle to get your gems all satisfied, and then

bundle exec ruby app.rb

You should see sinatra fire up with Webrick. Point your web browser to:

http://localhost:8080/

There is some original JWT code from the repo this project was forked from, but the operative APIs are /gmail to automatically log into gmail and download relevant messages, and then /jobs to process the downloaded work directories.

Thats it, there's no reason for this to be a sinatra application, but you could easily convert the job results into something that Sinatra serves back to the web. I just like having little api endpoints so I can invoke the jobs with curl from other systems.

This app will load app.rsa and app.rsa.pub as sign and verify keys for the JWT encode and decode

the app.rsa and app.rsa.pub were generated with:

openssl genrsa -out keys/app.rsa 2048

openssl rsa -in keys/app.rsa -pubout > keys/app.rsa.pub