rtunesu

= RTunesU

== DESCRIPTION: RTunesU is a ruby library for accessing Apple's iTunes U Webservices to integrate your education institutions iTunes U account into ruby applications. iTunes U's Webservices interface is fairly primitive by today's standards for XML based APIs. Some known flaws of iTunes U

• No arbitrary search
• Queries for missing objects may return an XML document representing the entire institution instead of returning an error (rdar://7253913)
• No ability to directly find Tracks (rdar://7254419)
• Does not follow REST principles
• Does not use HTTP status codes meaningfully

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

• TODO: file uploading

== SYNOPSIS: see the wiki for more information on using RTunesU: http://github.com/trek/rtunesu/wikis

== REQUIREMENTS: RTunesU depends on the ruby-hmac, hpricot, and builder libraries. These should all install automatically as dependencies when installing RTunesU

== INSTALL: RTunesU install via rubygems with gem instal rtunesu

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2008 Trek Glowacki

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