Create private GitHub repos under an organization for students in a class for homework and lab submissions

create_github_repos.rb

require "csv"
require 'Octokit'

# See documentation at:
# 1. https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb
# 2. http://www.rubydoc.info/github/pengwynn/octokit/Octokit

# Settings
# *.tsv is a tab-delimited file with the columns separated by tab: lastname, firstname, githubusername
tsv_file_name = "20.tsv"
course_prefix = "comp20"
outfile_name = "clone_comp20_repos.sh"
github_org = "tuftsdev"
repo_description_prefix = "COMP 20 Spring 2018 Private Repo for"
begin
  outfile = File.open(outfile_name, "w")
  client = Octokit::Client.new(:access_token => #ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE)

  parsed_file = CSV.read(tsv_file_name, { :col_sep => "\t" })
  parsed_file.each do |student|
    # This is the name of the team and private GitHub repo
    repo_group_name = course_prefix + "-" + student[1][0].downcase + student[0].downcase
    
    # Create new repository for team and set it to private
    # team_id is for TAs team on GitHub
    repo = client.create_repository(repo_group_name, {
      :description => "#{repo_description_prefix} #{student[1]} #{student[0]}",
      :private => "true",
      :team_id => #TEAM_ID_HERE,
      :organization => github_org
    })

    # Add student to repository as admin
    client.add_collaborator("#{github_org}/#{repo_group_name}", student[2], permission: 'admin')

    # This creates script to clone each student's repo
    outfile.write("git clone git@github.com:#{github_org}/#{repo_group_name};\n")

    # Set repository from private to public, used at end of semester
    #client.set_public(github_org + "/" + repo_group_name)
  end
rescue IOError => e
  puts "Whoops, something went terribly wrong! " + e.to_s
ensure
  outfile.close unless outfile.nil?
end