Rake Task for creating a bunch of repositories in gitlab

bulk.rake

# Inspired by https://bitbucket.org/paulopatto/gitlab/src/cdd8b38d0117/lib/tasks/bulk_import.rake
# but updated for gitlab 6


desc "Bulk Create Repositories"
task :bulk_create => :environment do |t, args|
  gitlab_group = "mmt-b2012"
  project_name = "patterns"
  teacher =  User.find_by_name("Some Person")
  gl = Gitlab.config
  puts "=== Bulk Create Repositories for students in #{gitlab_group} ==="
  gr = Group.find_by_name(gitlab_group)
  gr.users.each do |u|
    puts "    #{project_name} for #{u.name} and #{teacher.name}"
    project = create_repo_project(project_name, u)
    next if project.nil?
    if project.users.include?( teacher)
    else
       puts "#{project_name} adding #{teacher.name}"
            project.users_projects.create!(
                :project_access => UsersProject::MASTER,
                :user => teacher
            )
    end
  end
end

def create_repo_project(project_name, user)
    ns = user.namespace

    project = user.projects.find_by_name(project_name)
    if project then
        puts "  INFO: Project #{project_name} already exists in Gitlab for user #{user.name}, skipping."
    else
        params = {"name"=>project_name, "namespace_id"=>ns.id}
        puts "  INFO: Creating Project #{project_name} in namespace #{ns.id}"
        params["description"] = "Automatically created from Rake, #{Time.now.to_s}."
        project = ::Projects::CreateContext.new( user, params).execute
    end

    unless project.valid?
        puts "  ERROR: Failed to create project #{project} because #{project.errors.first}"
        return nil
    end

    # Add user as admin for project
    if project.users.include?( user )
    else
       puts "#{project_name} adding #{user.name}"
       project.users_projects.create!(
           :project_access => UsersProject::MASTER,
           :user => user
       )
    end

    if project.valid?
        project
    else
        puts "  ERROR: Failed to create project #{project} because #{project.errors.first}"
        nil
    end
end