As I was working on my about page, I got tired of copying and pasting the names of the pull requests and adding the link and so on. I wanted to generate them dynamically, so I whipped up a quick script to do just that.
I decided I wanted to have a YAML file which had project paths as keys, and pull request numbers as entries, which could later store the pull request titles. I ended up with a file like this:
# contribs.yml
---
brentd/gitploy:
"1":
"2":
philc/vimium:
"216":
cucumber/aruba:
"17":
"19":
# and so on...
Now I wanted to take that file, fetch the title for each pull request and write the changes back to the file. Really simple to do thanks to the awesome GitHub API and the Octokit gem:
require 'yaml'
require 'octokit'
ROOT = File.expand_path('.', File.dirname(__FILE__))
YAML_FILE = File.join(ROOT, '_includes', 'contribs.yml')
puts
puts "Updating _includes/contribs.yml"
y = YAML.load(File.read(YAML_FILE))
repos = y.keys.sort
repos.each do |repo|
y[repo].each_pair do |issue, title|
if title.nil?
y[repo][issue] = Octokit.pull(repo, issue).title
puts "--> #{y[repo][issue]}"
end
end
end
File.open(YAML_FILE, 'w') { |f| f.write(y.to_yaml) }
Now that we've got projects, pull request numbers and pull request titles, we can update the blog page:
puts "Generating _includes/open-source.md"
y = YAML.load(File.read(YAML_FILE))
File.open(File.join(ROOT, '_includes', 'open-source.md'), 'w') do |f|
y.sort_by { |v| v[0] }.each do |pair|
f.puts "#### [#{pair[0]}](https://github.com/#{pair[0]})"
f.puts
pair[1].each_pair do |issue, title|
f.puts "* #{title} - [##{issue}](https://github.com/#{pair[0]}/pull/#{issue})"
end
f.puts
end
end