Create Github repositories from command line

github_repo

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: UTF-8

user = '<YOUR USERNAME HERE>'

puts 'Repository Name:'
name = gets.chomp

puts 'Repository Description:'
description = gets.chomp

command = %{curl -u #{user} https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name": "#{name}", "description": "#{description}"}'}

puts command
system(command)

Usage:

• Move this script to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin
• Change with your Github username
• With root access allow it to execute: sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/github_repo
• Run at command line terminal $ github_repo
• Fill desired repository name
• Fill desired repository description
• Provide your password
• Done 😄

Based on: http://www.flaviobarros.net/2015/05/14/criando-repositorios-no-github-a-partir-shell/

TODO: minimal implementation: github_repo