wordpress XMLRPC api integration with ruby and rails

Ruby on Rails is really OOPs based framework. I personally love this framework. I worked on this for many years. Many Ruby lovers are looking to integrate the wordpress with Ruby on Rails. I strongly suggest to integrate wordpress with ROR using XMLRPC APIs. Using following code you can easily add the wordpress into Ruby on Rails Project. Use my following steps:

wordpress XMLRPC api integration with ruby and rails

Note: There are so many XMLRPC APIs provided by wordpress. I given the some simple example here.

First setup wordpress. Login to wordpress admin and enable the XMLRPC.
Go to Settings->writing and enable the XMLRPC checkbox.

wordpress XMLRPC api integration with ruby and rails
wordpress XMLRPC api integration with ruby and rails

Now you can fetch the wordpress posts, pages, tags etc.. using XMLRPC.

Following script is written in Ruby.

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require 'xmlrpc/client'

# build a post

#Use this for reference - http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp , http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API

post = {
'post_title'       => 'Post Title',
'post_excerpt'       => 'Post excerpt',
'post_content'       => 'this is Post content'
}

# initialize the connection - Change

connection = XMLRPC::Client.new2('http://www.purabtech.in/wordpress3/xmlrpc.php')  #Replace your wordpress URL

# make the call to publish a new post

#result = connection.call('metaWeblog.getRecentPosts', 1,'admin','123456') // Get Recent 10 Post
#result = connection.call('wp.getPost', 1,'admin','123456',19) // Get Single Post
#result = connection.call('wp.getPage', 1,'admin','123456',1) // Get Single Page
#result = connection.call('wp.getPages', 1,'admin','123456',10) // Get Pages
#result = connection.call('wp.getPosts', 1,'admin','123456') // Get 10 Posts from wordpress
result = connection.call('wp.getPosts', 1,'admin','123456',1000) // Get 10000 Posts from wordpress
#result = connection.call('wp.newPost', 1,'admin','123456',post) //For New Creating the Post

puts result // Printresult
puts result.length // Printresult

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If you are facing any issue then write to me.

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