Deletes all of a users' gists

delete_gists.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'json'

# Remove all gists from a user
# Must be run repeatedly, as one request returns a maximum of 30 results
# Feel free to alter this to keep making requests until there are no more gists,
# but for my purposes this was sufficient

username = "username"
password = "password"
value    = `curl --user \"#{username}:#{password}\" https://api.github.com/users/#{username}/gists`

JSON.parse(value).each do |i|
  puts i['url']
  `curl --user "#{username}:#{password}" -X DELETE #{i['url']}`
end