a rake task to pull gists from github.com as html

Rakefile.rb

# A rake task to pull all your gists from github.com as html.
#
# This has advantages over the script embed:
# * the script uses document.write, which is not compatible with XHTML Strict 1.0
# * document.write also can't be used after the document body has loaded (ie. no AJAX)
# * the gists get indexed by search engines this way
desc "Pull all gists from github and cache them locally"
task :gists do
  uri = URI.parse 'http://gist.github.com/api/v1/yaml/gists/heisters'
  html = YAML.load(Net::HTTP.get(uri))['gists'].inject('') do |h, gist|
    h << Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse("http://gist.github.com/#{gist[:repo]}.pibb"))
  end
  File.open(File.dirname(__FILE__)+'/gists.html', 'w'){|f|f.write html}
end