What is it?

Dreamy is Ruby library and command line tool for interfacing with DreamHost's API. The API itself is still very young so this is by no means a comprehensive library. Please fork and contribute!

Install

Grab the canonical gem from Gemcutter:

gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org
gem install dreamy

Or grab the development gem from GitHub:

gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
gem install sant0sk1-dreamy

Library Usage

DreamHost requires a username (email or webID) and API key (available from your DH Panel) to make API requests. When creating a Dreamy instance you'll need to provide this data. The Dreamy command line tool (dh) gathers the necessary info from a configuration file or environment variables, but you can do it however you'd like.

To get started with the library, just require the gem:

require 'dreamy'

Create a new object using your username and API key.

account = Dreamy::Base.new(username,api_key)

Fetch an array of Dreamy::Domain objects:

account.domains

Now that you have an array you can have your way with the data:

account.domains.each do |d|
  puts d.domain
  puts d.type
  puts d.home
end

Same goes with Users, DNS records, announcement list subscribers, MySQL databases, MySQL hosts, and MySQL users

# fetch an array of Dreamy::User objects
account.users

# fetch an array of Dreamy::Dns objects
account.dns

# fetch an array of Dreamy::AnnounceList objects
account.announce_lists 

# fetch an array of Dreamy::Subscribers to an announcement list
account.announce_list(listname,domain)

# fetch an array of Dreamy::MysqlUser objects
account.mysql_users

You can interact with announcement lists by adding and removing subscribers

# add a new subscriber to an announcement list
account.announce_add(listname,domain,email)

# remove a subscriber from an announcement list
account.announce_remove(listname,domain,email)

You can interact with DNS by adding and removing records

# add a new A record for a subdomain of an hosted domain
account.dns_add(subdomain,"A","123.321.123.321")

# remove the A record just created
account.dns_remove(subdomain,"A","123.321.123.321")

You can interact with your Private Server in many different ways

# change a private server setting
account.ps_set(ps_name,setting,value)

# set the memory size (MB)
account.ps_size_set(ps_name,"200")

# reboot the server
account.ps_reboot!(ps_name)

Check the base class for all the different API calls.

More and more functions will be added as time allows. If there's something missing that you want in, please:

fork -> commit -> pull request

Command Line Usage

The Dreamy gem will install an executable called "dh". In order to use it, you'll need to set your DreamHost account username and API key. You can acquire an API key from the DreamHost panel. "dh" will fetch your API credentials from 2 places, respectively:

1. A file called .dreamyrc in your $HOME directory with username on line 1, api key on line 2

An example ~/.dreamyrc would look like:

dh_user@gmail.com
34TGGGKBRG3YD1EA

2. Environment variables DH_USER and DH_KEY. You can set these by typing this in your shell:

   export DH_USER=dh_user@gmail.com export DH_KEY=34TGGGKBRG3YD1EA

If you want to make those environment variables permanent, add those 2 lines to the bottom of your ~/.bashrc

Run this from the command line to print the usage:

dh help

=== Commands

 announce                           # list announce lists
 announce:list <list>               # list all subscribers to <name> list
 announce:add <list> <email>        # add subscriber with <email> to <list>
 announce:remove <list> <email>     # remove subscriber with <email> from <list>

 dns                                # list DNS records
 dns <name>                         # list DNS records for <name>
 dns:add <record> <type> <value>    # add DNS record 
 dns:remove <record> <type> <value> # remove DNS record

 domains:http                       # list HTTP domain details
 domains:mysql                      # list MySQL domains
 domains:status                     # check availability of all domains (pingability)
 
 mysql:dbs                          # list MySQL database details
 mysql:hosts                        # list MySQL database hostnames
 mysql:users                        # list MySQL user details

 ps                                 # list private servers
 ps:add <web|mysql> <yes|no>        # adds a private server of type <web|mysql>. Yes = move data
 ps:pending                         # list private servers scheduled to be created
 ps:reboots <name>                  # list historical reboots for <name>
 ps:reboot <name> now!              # reboot <name> now! (proceed with caution)
 ps:remove                          # removes all pending private servers
 ps:settings <name>                 # list settings for private server <name>
 ps:set <name> <setting> <value>    # change <setting> on <name> to <value>
 ps:size <name>                     # list historical memory sizes for <name>
 ps:size <name> <value>             # set new memory <value> for <name>
 ps:usage <name>                    # list historical memory & CPU usage for <name>

 users                              # list user accounts: details
 users:pw                           # list user accounts: usernames & passwords

That's it for now. New commands should be springing up as Dreamy and the DreamHost API mature!

TODO

• add real rdocs