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I like to use the terminal when I can. Presenting UpcomingFS—access upcoming.org event information:

[ppillai@renegade ]$ ./upcomingfs.rb /tmp/fuse/ &
[1] 10700
[ppillai@renegade ]$ cd /tmp/fuse
[ppillai@renegade fuse]$ ls -1 texas
66002 - Nine Inch Nails
74539 - Suds on Sixth
77608 - Exposure Dallas - See and be seen.
77609 - Exposure Dallas - See and Be Seen.
[ppillai@renegade fuse]$

You can also view events in a city within a state (it doesn’t seem to work very well, though):

[ppillai@renegade fuse]$ ls -l massachusetts/boston | grep BarCamp
71709 - BarCamp Boston
[ppillai@renegade fuse]$

To view an event's details:

[ppillai@renegade fuse]$ ls -1 massachusetts/boston | grep Band
79932 - Live Band Karaoke - Beatles Night!
[ppillai@renegade fuse]$ cat 79932

Live Band Karaoke - Beatles Night!
==================================
                 
The Milky Way is hosting a special Beatles theme at the first and best Live Band karaoke night in Boston.

Sing the Beatles backed by a live band!

Prizes for best song and best costume.
No cover, as always.
22:00:00 to 01:00:00, 2006-05-30 to 
[ppillai@renegade fuse]$

To unmount the filesystem:

[ppillai@renegade fuse]$ cd..
[ppillai@renegade tmp]$ fusermount -u /tmp/fuse/
[ppillai@renegade tmp]$

Get the code here. You’ll need fuse and the ruby bindings. (I just got a Linux box; it’s got to be of some use other than writing Java.)

Tags: filesystem, fs, fuse, hacks, ruby, tech, upcoming, upcomingfs, yahoo

[1] premshree: ~$ wget http://premshree.seacrow.com/code/ruby/upcomingfs.rb --10:06:57-- http://premshree.seacrow.com/code/ruby/upcomingfs.rb => `upcomingfs.rb' Resolving premshree.seacrow.com... done. Connecting to premshree.seacrow.com[72.3.253.73]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2,803 [application/octet-stream] 100%[==========================================================================================================================>] 2,803 2.67M/s ETA 00:00 10:06:59 (2.67 MB/s) - `upcomingfs.rb' saved [2803/2803] [2] premshree: ~$

( 11 comments — Leave a comment )

Very nice!

gopalarathnam_v

2006-05-30 01:27 pm (UTC)

angelscat

2006-05-30 01:30 pm (UTC)

This is just...crazy. I once tried to write a simple read-only user-space filesystem using NFS and C, and implementing all these NFS functions took quite a lot of effort. Now FUSE and Ruby seems to have simplified the whole process a lot.