wolves

repo_data = [name: "asdf"]
{status, result} = JSON.encode(repo_data)
IO.puts "RESULT: #{result}"
case System.cmd "curl", ["-XPOST", "-H", "Authorization: token #{github_token}", "https://api.github.com/user/repos", "-d", "#{result}"]  do
  {output, 0} ->  IO.puts "#{output}"
  {err, code} -> {:error, %Raygun.Error{message: err, command: "new", code: code}}
end

kinopyo

# lib/custom_logger.rb
class CustomLogger < Logger
  def format_message(severity, timestamp, progname, msg)
    "#{timestamp.to_formatted_s(:db)} #{severity} #{msg}\n"
  end
end

logfile = File.open("#{Rails.root}/log/custom.log", 'a')  # create log file
logfile.sync = true  # automatically flushes data to file
CUSTOM_LOGGER = CustomLogger.new(logfile)  # constant accessible anywhere

dimus

# USAGE: Hash.from_xml:(YOUR_XML_STRING)
require 'nokogiri'
# modified from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1230741/convert-a-nokogiri-document-to-a-ruby-hash/1231297#1231297

class Hash
  class << self
    def from_xml(xml_io) 
      begin
        result = Nokogiri::XML(xml_io)
        return { result.root.name.to_sym => xml_node_to_hash(result.root)}