Question

I have to authenticate a user through the GitHub API in Ruby to be able to create a private repository.

The GitHub manual shows how to do it with curl.

Could someone show me how to do it with a Ruby gem like rest-client or octopussy?

Answer 1

Something like this?

client = Octokit::Client.new(:login => 'someguy', :token => 'sometoken123b1i3')
client.create(:name=>'foobar', :description=>'Foo Bar', :homepage=> 'http://example.com', :public=>false)

http://github.com/pengwynn/octokit/blob/master/lib/octokit/client.rb#L198