First raw version of desktop GitHub notifications

github-notifications.rb

require "octokit"
require "libnotify"

def get_notification_type type
  if type == "PullRequest"
    "Pull Request"
  else
    type
  end
end

def get_summary notification
  "GitHub " + get_notification_type(notification.subject.type)
end

def show_notification(notification)
  Libnotify.show :summary => get_summary(notification), :body => notification.subject.title, :icon_path => '/home/wopice/repo/r/github-notifications/octocat.png'
end

# @return [Array<Hashie::Mash>] Array of notifications.
def get_github_notifications(client)
  client.notifications({all: true, since: '2013-06-22T23:39:01Z'})
end

def authenticate(login, password)
  Octokit::Client.new(:login => login, :password => password)
end

if __FILE__ == $0
  client = authenticate("username", "password")

  notifications = get_github_notifications(client)

  notifications.each do |notification|
    show_notification notification
  end
end