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Our friends at Bebo have selected our Beboist plugin to be one of their featured Bebo Social API libraries.

This joyous occasion can only be properly acknowledged by the announcement that Beboist has now been moved to Github, a Git repository host where the cool kids play nowadays. We feel that Github’s convenient fork-edit-push code publishing mechanism will only help Beboist grow even quicker to become a prominent solution for working with the Bebo API.

The old SVN repository will still remain up, but all future development will take place on Github.

So, without further ado—here’s the Beboist Github repository:

http://github.com/skyfallsin/beboist/tree/master

You will install this plugin from your RAILS_ROOT directory as such:

git clone git://github.com/skyfallsin/beboist.git vendor/plugins/beboist

Git has a slight learning curve—here are a few resources to help you get started if you have never used it before: SVN to Git Crash Course, Git Tutorial

Intridea’s Public Trac is still up for bug reports.

While the GitHub folks have produced their own github-gem that provides some useful command-line tools for GitHub users, the library they have written isn’t your traditional API wrapper since it’s focused around using GitHub rather than getting information from GitHub.

I’ve thrown together a small library called ruby-github that provides that kind of functionality. It’s extremely simple and works with all of the currently available API but that only comes down to three read-only calls at this point. Use like so:

user = GitHub::API.user('mbleigh')
user.name # => "Michael Bleigh" 
user.repositories # => array of repositories
user.repositories.last.name # => "ruby-github" 
user.repositories.last.url # => "http://github.com/mbleigh/ruby-github" 
user.repositories.last.commits # => array of commits (see below)

commits = GitHub::API.commits('mbleigh','ruby-github')
commits.first.message # => "Moved github.rb to ruby-github.rb..." 
commits.first.id # => "1d8c21062e11bb1ecd51ab840aa13d906993f3f7" 

commit = GitHub::API.commit('mbleigh','ruby-github','1d8c21062e11bb1ecd51ab840aa13d906993f3f7')
commit.message # => "Moved github.rb to ruby-github.rb..." 
commit.added.collect{|c| c.filename} # => ["init.rb", "lib/ruby-github.rb"]

Installation

The easiest way to install ruby-github is as a gem:

gem install ruby-github

You can also install it as a Rails plugin if that’s your thing:

git clone git://github.com/mbleigh/ruby-github.git  vendor/plugins/ruby-github

Update 4/12/2008: Version 0.0.2 of the gem has been released and I have revised this post to adhere to the new gem’s requirements.

We here at Intridea are avid users of Unfuddle as it’s by far the most feature-filled-while-remaining-simple solution out there for software project management. Unfuddle comes with Subversion hosting, but it’s harder and harder to ignore the strengths of Git as a SCM solution. Not one to sit idly by when there’s hackery to be done, I put together a rough tool for anyone who has a GitHub account that provides a webhook to automatically create Unfuddle changesets.

All you need to do is grab the bridge code from It’s GitHub Home like so:

git clone git://github.com/mbleigh/github-unfuddle.git

And follow the setup instructions in the README. The webhook is running off of Sinatra and is very lightweight. Once it’s running you can start seeing changesets just by pointing your post-receive URL to the webhook, and you’ll soon start seeing updates in Unfuddle like so:

This is still in its beginning stages so there’s bound to be a kink or two, but that’s the beauty of GitHub! Just fork, fix, and pull.