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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.