An example of an object returned by github_api (as reported by Ruby inspect).

gistfile1.txt

#<Github::ResponseWrapper
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    comments=0
    comments_url="https://api.github.com/gists/5567591/comments"
    commits_url="https://api.github.com/gists/5567591/commits"
    created_at="2013-05-13T11:05:44Z" description=""
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        content="<h1>Yay!</h1>"
        filename="foo.html"
        language="HTML"
        raw_url="https://gist.github.com/raw/5567591/e8d99234e7de27c5ffc56ae726ba9573adc72d81/foo.html"
        size=13
        type="text/html"
      >
      foo.sass=#<Hashie::Mash
        content="html\n  background-color: red\n  float: right"
        filename="foo.sass"
        language="Sass"
        raw_url="https://gist.github.com/raw/5567591/77ff91aecd5581c62d3ed831eca8000ae7adcbba/foo.sass"
        size=43
        type="text/plain"
      >
    >
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    git_pull_url="https://gist.github.com/5567591.git"
    git_push_url="https://gist.github.com/5567591.git"
    history=[
      #<Hashie::Mash
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          additions=2
          deletions=2
          total=4
        >
        committed_at="2013-05-13T17:03:09Z"
        url="https://api.github.com/gists/5567591/ebc28f919ed371fcf5640ff1f4e25e60e1cdcf3c"
        user=#<Hashie::Mash
          avatar_url="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d40e419b14bfe393b07206602ae0271a?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png"
          events_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/events{/privacy}"
          followers_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/followers"
          following_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/following{/other_user}"
          gists_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/gists{/gist_id}"
          gravatar_id="d40e419b14bfe393b07206602ae0271a"
          html_url="https://github.com/lolmaus"
          id=200884
          login="lolmaus"
          organizations_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/orgs"
          received_events_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/received_events"
          repos_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/repos"
          starred_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/starred{/owner}{/repo}"
          subscriptions_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/subscriptions"
          type="User"
          url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus"
        >
        version="ebc28f919ed371fcf5640ff1f4e25e60e1cdcf3c"
      >
    ]
    html_url="https://gist.github.com/5567591"
    id="5567591"
    owner=#<Hashie::Mash
      avatar_url="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d40e419b14bfe393b07206602ae0271a?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png"
      events_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/events{/privacy}"
      followers_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/followers"
      following_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/following{/other_user}"
      gists_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/gists{/gist_id}"
      gravatar_id="d40e419b14bfe393b07206602ae0271a"
      html_url="https://github.com/lolmaus"
      id=200884
      login="lolmaus"
      organizations_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/orgs"
      received_events_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/received_events"
      repos_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/repos"
      starred_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/starred{/owner}{/repo}"
      subscriptions_url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus/subscriptions"
      type="User"
      url="https://api.github.com/users/lolmaus"
    >
    public=true
    updated_at="2013-05-13T17:03:09Z"
    url="https://api.github.com/gists/5567591"
    user=nil
  >"
>