Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discussions around concrete examples, not handy-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.
Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.
| ## Rails Upgrade check | |
| # | |
| # Check your github repos for out of date rails apps | |
| # | |
| # usage: $ ENV=yourusername PASSWORD=yourpassword ruby railscheck.rb | |
| # or | |
| # usage: $ ENV=yourusername PASSWORD=yourpassword ORG=yourorgname ruby railscheck.rb | |
| # | |
| # n.b requires the octokit gem |
| # download, from_repo, and commit_state methods swiped from | |
| # http://github.com/Sutto/rails-template/blob/07b044072f3fb0b40aea27b713ca61515250f5ec/rails_template.rb | |
| require 'open-uri' | |
| def download(from, to = from.split("/").last) | |
| #run "curl -s -L #{from} > #{to}" | |
| file to, open(from).read | |
| rescue | |
| puts "Can't get #{from} - Internet down?" |