I'm just taking my first look at the Ruby gem for the Linode API in order to write some rake tasks. It looks like the data is stored in an OpenStruct - but unfortunately seems to overload the use of the attribute type (which returns the class for the object, not the data). I'm sure I could just modify the code - but I must not be the first person hitting this. Right?

For now I hacked the below line into the convert_item method of linode.rb:

item["linode_type"] = item["TYPE"] unless item["TYPE"].nil?