Rtorrent web interface

Me and alka wrote a web application in ruby which serves as an interface to rtorrent. It has been written in ruby using the ramaze and sequel frameworks. It
is currently tested on debian stable with mostly apt-get installed gems,
for more info check the README file included (the only one external to
the distribution should be the xmlrpc gem which is on another post in
this blog).
It supports authentication and accesses rtorrent through the unix socket
interface, allowing to run the server as a user process.
An internal copy of the information from rtorrent is stored in a
in-memory sqlite database (maybe it can be totaly avoided, but that was how we planned it in the beggining) to avoid to access too much times to rtorrent
along with the caching of pages in ramaze.

Currently may lack some feature, but it’s doing it’s job, the main
missing feature is the user interface. If someone can write a
CSS and maybe do some cleanup in the interface any help would be
appreciated.

As usual in the code page everything can be found or directly here
git://github.com/mellon85/rtorrent-wrb.git

It is currently no more developed as we switched torrent client. Patches or comment are welcomed

Download anime from lolipower.org

This little ruby script can download a whole anime serie from lolipower.org, when the anime page respects the “standards”. It verifies the MD5 checksum of downloads and it avoids to download already downloaded (checksum checked) or duplicated episodes.
If there are duplicate episodes the mkv format one will be preferred. You can also choose ,with command line arguments, the first and last episode to download.

You can find the link to the project in the code page or just here
git://github.com/alka/down-lolipower.git

mupnp updated

mupnp has been updated to version 0.1.1.

The point is that i was experimenting problems with firehol firewall wich had UPnP ports enabled but I still wasn’t retriving any answer.

To fix this i had to hack a little on miniupnp library and finished searching when i found the TX_FROM_UPNP_PORT constant wich wasn’t set by default due to compatibility problems with Windows XP. I just made a slight change and converted it in a runtime check instead of a compile time one. This changed the C api of the library for the upnpDiscover function, and added a value to the initialization of the high level interface written to interface with the library which is automatically set to send data from the upnp port.

I have sent the patch to the mainstream developer, but it would require api changes and more modification to make it work correctly on the full fledged library.

With this last fix the rtorrent ruby controller is almost ready, i just have to comment the code and write a post about it

The gem is already available for upgrade on the rubyforge webstite or gem utility.

UPnP Gem!

I have just discovered the power of the mkmf package in Ruby.
It simplify the way to build the upnp module a lot!
I just had to move the files to be compiled in a folder (called miniupnpc) and then just call this

require 'mkmf'
create_makefile("MiniUPNP","miniupnpc")

And i’ll have a makefile ready to compile the module, no matter which is you platform! With theis new knowledge and the immense usefulness of the ferret’s Rakefile i’have built and published a ruby gem that will install the UPnP module and the wrapper.

The name is simply mupnp. Installable with the gem utility. For windows the library must be precompiled, so it may not be immidiatly upated or released when needed.

There have been some API changes, to make it more ruby style, anyway it is nothing big, just check at the documentation of the methods and check for differences.
[Only addPortMapping and the initialize method had a change in the order of the arguments]

To install it just do:

gem install mupnp

And it will be downloaded and compiled on your mac/linux box. For windows version i’ll have to find someone to trust that will build it for me.

XMLRPCS gem published

I have just published on rubyforge the gem for my xmlrpc modifications.
It’s called xmlrpcs and contains the class discussed in the previous post.

xmlrpcs Rubyforge homepage
Online RDoc

The changes are that now it has full rdoc comments and the path to include it is ‘xmlrpc/xmlrpcs’
I would like to relase my upnp binding as a gem too, but that will come later.
To install it just do

gem install xmlrpcs

and it’s done