I’ve decided to switch this blog off wordpress and go w/ something closer to the metal. Toto is a rack based blogging engine that uses markdown and basic test files. This is a good approach because you get complete control, but also an editing environment that’s close to normal coding. Heres some links that helped me get up and running.

Getting Started With toto

XmlRPC UTF-8 Fix

Blogging With Toto

require 'rubygems'
require 'fastercsv'
require 'xmlrpc/client'

USERID = ''
PASSWORD = ''

# http://www.eggheadcafe.com/microsoft/Ruby/36270580/xmlrpc-rexml-incorrectly-handles-utf8-data.aspx
# http://tedwise.com/2010/05/25/blogging-with-toto/
module XMLRPCWorkAround
    def do_rpc(request, async=false)
        data = super
        data.force_encoding("UTF-8")
        data
    end
end

def getPages(blog)
  blog.call("wp.getPages", 0, USERID, PASSWORD, 1000)
end

def getPosts(blog)
  blog.call("metaWeblog.getRecentPosts", 0, USERID, PASSWORD, 1000)
end

def slugify(title)
  title.downcase.gsub(/[ \._]/, '-')
end

blog = XMLRPC::Client.new3(:host => "", :path => "/xmlrpc.php")
blog.extend(XMLRPCWorkAround)
begin
  puts "Logging into blog and getting the list of posts..."
  posts = getPosts(blog)
  puts "  response received, found #{posts.size} posts"
  `mkdir articles`
  posts.each do |post|
    permaLink = post['permaLink']
        puts permaLink
    dateAndName = permaLink.gsub(/http:\/\/your-wordpress-blog\.com\//, '').split('/')
    postFilename = 'articles/' + dateAndName.join('-') + '.txt'
    postDate = dateAndName[0] + '/' + dateAndName[1] + '/' + dateAndName[2]
    escapedTitle = post['title'].gsub(/"/, '\\"')
    File.open(postFilename, "w") do |postFile|
      postFile.puts("title: \"#{escapedTitle}\"")
      postFile.puts("author: dusty candland")
      postFile.puts("date: #{postDate}")
      postFile.puts("slug: #{dateAndName[3]}")
      puts "#{post['title']} - #{postDate}"
      postFile.puts("categories: #{post['categories']}")
      postFile.puts("keywords: #{post['mt_keywords']}")
      postFile.puts
      postFile.puts post['description']
    end
  end
rescue XMLRPC::FaultException => e
   puts "ERROR: Code: #{e.faultCode}"
   puts "ERROR: Msg.: #{e.faultString}"
end