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Basic CRUD actions through an AR-style interface. Start/Stop experiments, get tracking snippets, add pages, etc.
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>= 0.3.0
>= 1.4.2
 Project Readme

Whoa

http://github.com/richmolj/whoa

Description

Simple Active-Recordy API to the Google Website Optimizer (WO) API. Create experiments, start/stop/modify/search them, add/modify pages, get code snippets, etc.

No Rails required.

Basic Usage

Authentication

> Whoa.email = 'xxxxx'

> Whoa.password = 'xxxxx'

> Whoa.account_id = 'xxxxx'

Uses ClientLogin. OAuth coming soon.

Basic actions

Just think Active Record.

Create

> Whoa::Experiment.create(:title => "My New Experiment")

or

> Whoa::Experiment.new

> Whoa::Experiment.title = "My New Experiment"

> Whoa::Experiment.save

Update

> Whoa::Experiment.update_attributes(:title => "My new title") 

Read

> Whoa::Experiment.all(:status => "Running")

> Whoa::Experiment.first(:title => "Foo")

> Whoa::Experiment.find(123456)

If you're wondering what you can get/set, take a look at the WO API docs. You also have the handy #attributes method.

Delete:

Whoa::Experiment.first.destroy

Experiments and Pages get a nice #to_xml method as well, though it won't include all attributes (see TODO)

Experiments

Some handy shortcuts:

@experiment.copy!

@experiment.start!

@experiment.stop!

Each experiment has #tracking_script, #control_script and #conversion_script. You'll need to inject this code into your pages somehow to get experiments working.

Note that unlike the manual WO setup, the API doesn't validate your live site for tracking code. This is actually pretty handy, since you can inject code and start experiments independent of each other depending on your workflow.

Pages

Experiments have many pages; each page belongs to an experiment.

@experiment.pages.first

@experiment.create_page(:title => "foo", :content => "bar")

Requirements

  • rest-client >= 0.4.2
  • happymapper >= 0.3.0
  • active_support >= 2.2.0

TODO

  • OAuth
  • Right now, this only works for A/B experiments, not multivariate
  • Validations could be better handled
  • Defining what you can get/set is a bit murky.
  • Some additional API corner cases and AR-like sugar
  • Testing. It's open-source, I slacked.
  • Haven't bothered with trying other versions of dependencies. I'm almost positive you'd get away with an older verison of ActiveSupport.

License

Copyright (c) 2009 richmolj@gmail.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.