tubes.io library for node

The tubes.io library for node is a collection of clients and utilities for interacting with tubes.io services. The library consists of two parts:

1. The Command Line Interface (CLI)
2. The tubes.io node lib

Installation

Installing NPM

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Installing tubes.io CLI

[sudo] npm install -g tubesio

Command Line Interface

A command-line interface for interacting with the tubes.io API.

The tubes.io CLI simplifies the process of environment setup and subsequent management of hub scripts deployed on tubes.io.

Environment Setup

Create a working directory where your scripts will live:

$ mkdir my_username && cd my_username

Then run:

$ tubesio init

This command will prompt you for your tubes.io username and API key. Your API key can be found on the edit profile page once logged in over at tubes.io.

This will download both the necessary and available libraries for your script once deployed.

Development Workflow

The current feature set is quite limited. Only automated deployments are supported which means you will need to copy/paste existing scripts from tubes.io to your local environment. Creating new tubes must also be done from the tubes.io website.

By convention scripts should be named <slug>.js where slug is the slugified version of your tube's name. For example if your tube's name is My 1st Tube then your script name should be my-1st-tube.js. This generally means replacing spaces and special charachters with dashes. If you're unsure of what your tube's slug name is you should take a look at your tube's endpoint. The slug will be the portion after the last "/" and before the format ".json" (e.g. http://tubes.io/username/tube/my-1st-tube.json)

Once you've copied your hub down into your local work directory you can deploy by running:

$ tubesio deploy my-1st-tube

A word of warning: The change will take effect immediately. In case you need to rollback, a backup of the previous script is created with the .bak extension in your working directory. This can be deployed using the -f switch to specify an alternate file to use instead of the default. For example: $ tubes.io deploy -f my-1st-tube.js.bak my-1st-tube

tubes.io node lib

Modules

• tubesio.http
• tubesio.logging
• tubesio.utils

HTTP

TODO

Logging

TODO

Utils

TODO

Supported Languages

Only JavaScript and CoffeeScript running atop node is supported at present but we have plans to add more languages in future. If you'd like a particular language added then let us know. The more support we get for a language the greater the chance it will be added.