repo converter

README.md

Repo to Syllabus

Convert repository of many linked markdown files to a single pdf file.

Bonus: Upload to blackboard every day via cron. Does Blackboard have an API?

Usage

Install ruby gem dependencies.

bundle install

Convert.

repo = Repo.new({:org => "gwu-business", :name => "badm-2301"})
repo.convert(:to => "badm-2301-syllabus-20150831.pdf")

---

Reference:

• https://gist.github.com/s2t2/770b79037870d5a1f008

convert_repo.rb

require 'github_api'

class Repo
  attr_accessor(:org, :name)

  def initialize(attributes)
    @org = attributes[:org]
    @name = attributes[:name]
  end

  # @param [Repo] repository
  # @param [Hash] options
  # @param [Hash] options [String] to
  #def convert(repository, options = {})
  def convert(options = {})
    # get contents of README.md

    # if there are any links from the readme to other markdown files,
    #  in place of each link:
    #   get the contents of the linked file;
    #   insert the contents (except for the file header, denoted by an `#`)

    # convert transformed contents to html and save output as .pdf (or maybe .doc)








    github = Github.new

    dir = github.repos.contents.get(:user => repo.org, :repo => repo.name, :path => '/')

    files = dir.map do |f|
      github.repos.contents.get(:user => repo.org, :repo => repo.name, :path => f.path.to_s)
    end

    file_contents = files.map do |f|
      Base64.decode64(f.content)
    end

    file_contents.each do |fc|
      puts fc
      puts ""
    end


  end
end

binding.pry
repo = Repo.new({:org => "gwu-business", :name => "badm-2301"})

#syllabus = File.new("#{repo.name}-syllabus-#{Date.today.to_s}.pdf")
#repo.convert(:to => syllabus)

repo.convert(:to => "#{repo.name}-syllabus-#{Date.today.to_s}.pdf")

Gemfile

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'github_api'
gem 'pry' # insert `binding.pry` for debugging

Gemfile.lock

GEM
  remote: https://rubygems.org/
  specs:
    addressable (2.3.8)
    coderay (1.1.0)
    descendants_tracker (0.0.4)
      thread_safe (~> 0.3, >= 0.3.1)
    faraday (0.9.1)
      multipart-post (>= 1.2, < 3)
    github_api (0.12.4)
      addressable (~> 2.3)
      descendants_tracker (~> 0.0.4)
      faraday (~> 0.8, < 0.10)
      hashie (>= 3.4)
      multi_json (>= 1.7.5, < 2.0)
      nokogiri (~> 1.6.6)
      oauth2
    hashie (3.4.2)
    jwt (1.5.1)
    method_source (0.8.2)
    mini_portile (0.6.2)
    multi_json (1.11.2)
    multi_xml (0.5.5)
    multipart-post (2.0.0)
    nokogiri (1.6.6.2)
      mini_portile (~> 0.6.0)
    oauth2 (1.0.0)
      faraday (>= 0.8, < 0.10)
      jwt (~> 1.0)
      multi_json (~> 1.3)
      multi_xml (~> 0.5)
      rack (~> 1.2)
    pry (0.10.1)
      coderay (~> 1.1.0)
      method_source (~> 0.8.1)
      slop (~> 3.4)
    rack (1.6.4)
    slop (3.6.0)
    thread_safe (0.3.5)

PLATFORMS
  ruby

DEPENDENCIES
  github_api
  pry

BUNDLED WITH
   1.10.5