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I am trying to use your ruby script, but it's all new to me.
I've installed ruby 1.8.7 on windows and that errored with "mt_tumblr_converter.rb:3:in `require': no such file to load -- ruby-debug (LoadError)"

I thought I managed to install the ruby-debug gem package but it never seemed to work. Is there a list if the required gems or are they just the "require" entries?

I realise the error is probably not related to your script but can you let me know which version of ruby and what platform you ran this on?

Thanks.

OK, so I think I've got past that problem but another one has appeared.
Any help would be be greatly appreciated.

:29:in `require': no such file to load --
main (LoadError)
from :29:in `require'
from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/tumblr-2.2.0/lib/tumblr.rb:14:i
n `'
from :33:in `require'
from :33:in `rescue in require'
from :29:in `require'
from c:/Shared/Tumblr Upload/mt_tumblr_converter.rb:10:in `'

I have progressed once more, this time I had the wrong Tumblr gem, I removed the tumblr gem and added the tumblr-rb and now that error has gone, but another one has come.

net/http: warning: Content-Type did not set; using application/x-www-form-urlencoded
an error occured parsing this entry, error: wrong status line: "

Where should I be setting the Content-Type? I presume it is just plain text.

Thanks again.

Sorry I really posted this as code for developer's to play around with or edit, I am not supporting it or trying to make it work for fully general purpose use. Good luck getting it all working, if you know ruby and a bit of coding, it should work for you. If not it is probably a bit over the head of a typical computer user.

Thanks,
Dan

Thanks for the feedback Dan.
The HTML message above was only a warning and there seem to be plenty of those with Ruby.

I've got it working for basic posts but I really would like to import some posts with photos associated.

I looked at your script and also the tumblr-rb gem to understand how it works. I've changed line 101 to change the post type from regular to photo as below.
:type => :regular to :type => :photo

But this then gives an error when running the script. I've put the photo URL in the BODY as specified by the Gem.

Exception `TypeError' at mt_tumblr_converter.rb:103 - can't convert String into Integer
an error occured parsing this entry, error: can't convert String into Integer
#

Any pointers would be welcomed as to why this doesn't work?
Thanks Again.

Sorry I took a quick look and don't know what that is off the top of my head. You could try to run the converter with

require 'ruby-debug'; debugger above that line and view the data that is blowing up. It might be as simple as calling .to_s on something or interpolating it as a string "#{var_that_needs_to_be_string}"

you could also surround that part of the script in

begin
#bad lines that cause the error
rescue => error
puts "error: #{error}: #{error.backtrace.join("\n")}"
end

which will print out more info about the error.