I recently started working on a project that needs to integrate with Basecamp. 37signals provides a ruby script, basecamp.rb, to ease the use of their API, but it hasn't kept up. Specifically, they expanded the API to expose the time-tracking functionality in Basecamp.

Being fond of monkey patching I thought I'd create a Ruby on Rails plugin so I can easily add whatever methods I need without having to alter the actual basecamp.rb file. I'm sure I'll be adding more methods in the near future, but right now the plugin just contains one method for grabbing time entries.

You can grab this plugin from svn:

svn co http://svn.jthopple.com/plugins/monkeycamp

Or, install it directly from the root of a Rails project:

script/plugin install -x http://svn.jthopple.com/plugins/monkeycamp

Check out the documentation for more information.