A new version is being developed; track progress here: https://github.com/parasquid/namecheap/tree/v2.0

Overview

Documentation

http://rubygems.org/gems/namecheap

Usage

In your initializers, configure Namecheap like so:

Namecheap.configure do |config|
  config.key = 'apikey'
  config.username = 'apiuser'
  config.client_ip = '127.0.0.1'
end

Then you can do something like:

Namecheap.domains.get_list

Please see the Namecheap API documentation for more information

About this project

Namecheap is a ruby wrapper for the Namecheap API

The code was originally forked from https://github.com/hashrocket/namecheap

At Mindvalley (the company I work for) we have something called 'HackdayFridays' where we spend the whole day hacking on an interesting project that may or may not be directly related to the business. It was enacted so that the tech and production team can unwind from what can be a monotonous work week, and hack on something more interesting.

One of the proposed projects was a 'big red button' where someone can just type in the domain name, push a big red button, and magically:

• the domain name is purchased
• the DNS is pointed to our load balancer
• a subversion repository is created (with users)
• a template is committed to the repository with default pages
• a project is created in webistrano
• the initial setup and deployment is done

Mostly everything is already automated except the domain name purchase and dns. We purchase most of our domains from Namecheap (and some from GoDaddy) and it was fortunate that Namecheap has an API. Unfortunately there didn't seem to be a gem that already existed.

A search brought me to HashRocket's namecheap API wrapper. It didn't have any of the purchase API wrappers, but it was a good starting point (and allowed me to study how seasoned pros would approach API wrappers). So I forked, published a gem based on the fork, and hacked on it. And that's how it all began :)

Credits

Tristan V. Gomez: tristan dot gomez at gmail dot com

Hashrocket from where the original code was forked from

Mongoid from where the configuration code was modified from

Plug!!

Mindvalley is hiring :)

License

Copyright (c) 2011 Tristan V. Gomez

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.