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The jira4r gem is in source and has a mirror on github. You will also need the soap4r gem.

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'jira4r/jira_tool'
gem 'soap4r'
require 'soap/mapping'

login_name = 'soaptest'
login_password = 'soaptest'
jira_address = "http://jira.atlassian.com"

j = Jira4R::JiraTool.new(2,jira_address)

j.login(login_name,login_password)

comment = Jira4R::V2::RemoteComment.new()

comment.author = login_name

unless ARGV[0].nil? or ARGV[1].nil?
comment = Jira4R::V2::RemoteComment.new()
comment.author = login_name
comment.body = ARGV[1]
j.addComment(ARGV[0].upcase, comment)
puts "Added comment '#{comment.body}' to issue: #{ARGV[0]}"
end

You will want to update the login_name, login_password, and jira_address variables to your own values. It’s late I’ll do more to clean it up and experiment more with the Jira RPC API.

ATTi is a Platinum sponsor for this conference and one of my Sr. Engineers, Lori Holden will be presenting on ActiveORM, part of the merb + rails => Rails 3 project.

Instead I spent the day doing an internal web-cast of our (ATTi) all hands meeting.  Using technology and skills I primarily aquired while building out Confreaks.

Carl Youngblood my partner and Brad Midgley our as needed hired hand are actively working in Florida to post process what was recorded today and to prepare for tomorrow.  I regret that I was unable to be there, but we (that’s the corporate we again) had a major system upgrade scheduled for this weekend that I could not skip out on.  As it turns out we had to push the release off a little in order to keep certain partner agreements.  Regardless we have work to do this weekend to get things wrapped up for the full launch of this system upgrade in a couple of weeks.  So I appreciate my business partner and the effort he has put in to improving our systems and processes to make the AAC recording go smoothly.

Which leaves me sitting here, reading emails, my most recent copy of Communications of the ACM, and general playing around on the interwebs…  Just installed the Tweeter-Tools plugin for WordPress.

If you have questions feel free to contact me.

Normally I’d just hook up my MBP and use synergy to share the keyboard and mouse, but right now I have my MBP doing other things…  So I checked out the latest version of my app to the windows box and went to run the migrations.  FAIL

No sqlite3 file… I guess I haven’t done any development on this box in a very long time.  So I run a

gem update –system

It eventually complets, and then I do a

gem install sqlite3-ruby

This ultimately results in an error message about not having nmake installed.

So figuring there was not a native version for windows yet, I ran the following command:

gem list –remote –all sqlite

To get a list of all gems starting with sqlite, found the sqlite3-ruby gem and installed the prior version, to see if it was already available for windows.

gem install sqlite3-ruby -v=1.2.3

And that did the trick.

Net result I’m back up and running my app on the windows machine, making changes and finshing videos.

The rubyconf2008 videos should be available on Tuesday (11/25/08), follow ‘confreaks’ on twitter for the latest news.

Check them out at:

http://www.followcost.net (for something interesting put guykawasaki in to see his cost)

and

http://www.twistr.org

Twistr is Twitter + flickr creates things like this and lets you vote on them:

Twistr. Twitter + Flickr = LOLs?

This morning we had Matz’s Keymote – Reasons for Ruby, then in room one I’ve watched Greg Pollack’s presentation on scaling ruby, and am now watching Using Git in Ruby Applications by Scott Chacon. Interesting git for everything.

Trying to get a regional conference organizer’s meeting together tomorrow evening.

One more a link on the name change at YELLOWPAGES.COM know known as AT&T Interactive.