A Ruby wrapper for the DNSimple API.

Credentials¶ ↑

Create a file in your home directory called .dnsimple

In this file add the following:

username: YOUR_USERNAME
password: YOUR_PASSWORD

Alternatively you can pass the credentials via command-line arguments, as in:

dnsimple -u username -p password command

Commands¶ ↑

The following commands are available for domains:

• dnsimple list

• dnsimple describe domain.com

• dnsimple create domain.com

• dnsimple register domain.com registrant_id

• dnsimple transfer domain.com registrant_id [authinfo]

• dnsimple delete domain.com

• dnsimple apply domain.com template_short_name

Please note that domain registration and transfer can only be done through the API for domains that do not require extended attributes. A future version of the API will add support for extended attributes.

The following commands are available for records:

• dnsimple record:create [–prio=priority] domain.com name type content [ttl]

• dnsimple record:list domain.com

• dnsimple record:delete domain.com record_id

The following commands are available for custom templates:

• dnsimple template:list

• dnsimple template:create name short_name [description]

• dnsimple template:delete short_name

• dnsimple template:list_records short_name

• dnsimple template:add_record short_name name type content [ttl] [prio]

• dnsimple template:delete_record short_name template_record_id

The following commands are available for managing contacts:

• dnsimple contact:list

• dnsimple contact:describe id

• dnsimple contact:create [name:value name:value …]

• dnsimple contact:update id [name:value name:value …]

• dnsimple contact:delete id

The following commands are available for purchasing certificates:

• dnsimple certificate:purchase domain.com name

• dnsimple certificate:submit id

Contact Attributes¶ ↑

The contact attributes that can be used in the name:value pairs are:

• first_name

• last_name

• organization_name (optional)

• job_title (required if organization name is specified)

• address1

• address2 (optional)

• city

• state_province (also aliased as state)

• postal_code

• country

• email

• phone

• phone_ext (optional)

• fax (optional)

Wrapper Classes¶ ↑

In addition to the command line utility you may also use the included Ruby classes directly in your Ruby applications.

Sample:

require 'rubygems'
require 'dnsimple'

DNSimple::Client.username = 'YOUR_USERNAME'
DNSimple::Client.password = 'YOUR_PASSWORD'

user = User.me
puts "#{user.domain_count} domains"

puts "Domains..."
Domain.all.each do |domain|
  puts "  #{domain.name}"
end

domain = Domain.find("example.com")
domain.apply("template") # applies a standard or custom template to the domain

domain = Domain.create("newdomain.com")
puts "Added #{domain.name}"
domain.delete # removes from DNSimple

The complete RDoc for the wrapper classes can be found here:

rdoc.info/projects/aetrion/dnsimple-ruby