If you’ve tried installing the rjb 1.1.x gem on Mac OS X Leopard, you will probably end up with an error like:


lipo: can’t open input file: /var/tmp//ccpyNy8b.out (No such file or directory)
make: *** [load.o] Error 1


In order to get around this you have to run the following commands:


sudo su -
export JAVA_HOME=’/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home’
gem install rjb


So as part of a pet project I decided to write a Ruby client for the Technorati API. There are several available requests that can be made and each has it’s own options to pass for things like the response format. I should mention there is also a Technorati-Ruby gem available that looks like it was written back in 2004 and weighs in at around 500 lines. Mine weighs in at 130 lines or so but doesn’t provide a response parser.

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