I have a bunch of notes in Evernote which I would like to access in a Rubyish way (instead of only using the web interface). I thought I’d use this gem (https://github.com/cgs/evernote), which is “…a high level wrapper around Evernote’s Thrift-generated ruby code. It bundles up Evernote’s thrift-generated code and creates some simple wrapper classes.”
I got a developer key, and the sample code here (https://github.com/cgs/evernote/blob/master/example.rb) worked, giving me the correct name for my sandbox notebook.
However, I don’t understand what to do next. By “simple wrapper classes” I was expecting the Evernote::EDAM::Type::Notebook object to be some Enumerable object that I could use blocks to query. I dunno, something like
notebook.select {|note| note.tags == ‘foo’}
But when I do the notebook.TAB TAB trick in IRB to look at available methods, there is nothing like that. The author of the gem refers users to Evernote API at http://www.evernote.com/about/developer/api/ref/ , and I can’t make heads or tails of the thing. Am I out of luck until I fully understand what things like THRIFT means, or is there a simple listing of methods somewhere that I’m failing to look?
You shouldn’t have to learn anything about Thrift. The data model wrapper classes (Note, Notebook, Tag, etc) are basically dumb structs; the methods to exercise them are on the endpoint classes, UserStore and NoteStore. For example, to get a list of Notebooks, you’d call NoteStore.listNotebooks. You can see some examples in the SDK under ruby/sample.