save this toyour ~/bin directory as "fgist" then run "chmod +x ~/bin/fgist" then make sure ~/bin is on your $PATH This will download all the contents of a gist to your current directory, given a gist url. run as: fgist https://gist.github.com/dbc-challenges/5360499

fgist.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'net/https'
require 'json'

# a simple wrapper to do an HTTP GET
def fetch_uri(uri)
  uri = URI(uri)
  Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => true) do |http|
    http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
    http.get(uri.path).body
  end
end

# GETs the URI and returns a Ruby hash.
def fetch_json(uri)
  result = fetch_uri(uri)
  JSON.load(result)
end

def download_files(json)
  json["files"].each do |filename, file_hash|
    print "downloading #{filename}... "
    File.open(filename, "w+") do |f|
      f.write(file_hash["content"])
    end
    puts "done."
  end
end

# Let's begin!

gist_id = ARGV[0].match(/\/([\w\d]+)$/)[1]
json = fetch_json("https://api.github.com/gists/#{gist_id}")
download_files(json)