Use Spotify from the command line

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

$ gem install shellify

1. Create an application on the Spotify Developer Dashboard.
2. Add http://localhost:8888/callback to the Spotify Application's Redirect URIs
3. Run shellify configure
4. Run shellify authenticate

$ shellify
  Now Playing:
  3 Libras - A Perfect Circle - 02:24/03:39 - ♥

See shellify help for a full list of commands.

Shellify is basically a just a wrapper for RSpotify and wouldn't be possible (without significantly more effort) thanks to the work that's already been done over there.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.