Find TODOs in your Rails project and create Github issues accordingly

utilities.rake

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

# For the lazy like me who find themselves
# frequently adding lines like
# TODO: add documentation
# 
# Find all these lines in the current project
# and create Github issues accordingly
# The issue will contain a link to the current branch
# with the appropriate line number as well as the content
# of the "TODO" 

namespace :utilities do
  desc "Find TODOs and submit them to github as issues"
  task :todos, :needs => :environment do |t|
  
    # what are we looking for
    pattern, todos = /# TODO: (.+)/, []
  
    # which file types should be parsed?
    extensions = "rb,coffee,js,haml,sass,scss,yml,yaml,markdown"
  
    # github repo
    repo = "your_repository"
    
    # get the branch you're currently on for convenience
    current_branch = `git status`.scan(/# On branch (.*)\n#/).flatten.first
  
    # post to github
    github_issues_url = "http://github.com/api/v2/json/issues/open/#{ENV['GITHUB_USER']}/#{repo}"
  
    # parse files
    Dir.glob(::Rails.root.to_s + "/**/*.{#{extensions}}").each do |file|
      next unless File.file?(file)
      begin
        File.open(file) do |f|
          line_number = 1
          f.each_line do |line|
            found = line.scan(pattern)
            unless found.empty?
              todos << { 
                :file   => file.gsub(Rails.root.to_s, ''), 
                :todo   => found.flatten, 
                :number => line_number 
              } 
            end
            line_number += 1
          end
        end
      rescue
        puts "ERROR: #{file} couldn't be parsed"
      end
    end
  
    uri  = URI.parse(github_issues_url)
    http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
    req  = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
  
    # auth
    req.basic_auth ENV['GITHUB_USER'], ENV['GITHUB_PASSWORD']
  
    todos.each do |todo|
      link = "https://github.com/#{ENV['GITHUB_USER']}/#{repo}/blob/#{current_branch}#{todo[:file]}#L#{todo[:number]}"
      params = {
        :title => todo[:todo],
        :body => "TODO found in `#{todo[:file]}` [in line #{todo[:number]}](#{link}):\n\n#{todo[:todo]}"
      }
  
      req.set_form_data params
      res = http.request(req)
      if res.code.to_i == 200 || res.code.to_i == 201
        reponse = JSON.parse(res.body)
        puts "Issue ##{reponse['issue']['number']} created."
      end
    end
  
  end
end