Class Magnolia::Mark
In: lib/magnolia/magnolia.rb
Parent: Object

The mark class is used to store information about each bookmark after it is found, created or updated. Each method that is not in the DONT_PROCESS constant returns and array of Mark objects.

Methods

a_tag   find   from_xml   img_tag   new   save  

Attributes

a_tag  [R] 
created  [RW] 
description  [RW] 
id  [RW] 
img_tag  [R] 
owner  [RW] 
private  [RW] 
rating  [RW] 
screenshot  [RW] 
tags  [RW] 
title  [RW] 
updated  [RW] 
url  [RW] 

Public Class methods

find(id)

Finds a single bookmark by it‘s id (short name). If not found raises a Magnolia::RequestError

from_xml(xml)

Converts xml into a mark

Public Instance methods

a_tag()

Creates a link to the url of the bookmark with the title as the text

img_tag()

Creates an image tag for the screenshot image with the title as the alt text

save()

This method allows working with bookmarks much like ActiveRecord.

Examples

  mark = Magnolia::Mark.new
  mark.title = 'Addicted To New'
  mark.url = 'http://addictedtonew.com/'
  mark.tags = ['john nunemaker', 'me'] # you can also use comma-seperated list mark.tags = 'john nunemaker, me'
  mark.save
  puts mark.id # this is the id of the newly created bookmark

You can also use it to update bookmarks like so: 

  mark = Magnolia::Mark.find(:id => 'someshortname')
  mark.title = 'Addicted To New by John Nunemaker'
  mark.save

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