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GIST(1)                           Gist manual                          GIST(1)

NAME
       gist - upload code to https://gist.github.com

Synopsis
       The gist gem provides a gist command that you can use from your
       terminal to upload content to https://gist.github.com/.

Installation
       o   If you have ruby installed:

           gem install gist

       o   If you're using Bundler:

           source :rubygems gem 'gist'

       o   For OS X, gist lives in Homebrew

           brew install gist

Command
       o   To upload the contents of a.rb just:

           gist a.rb

       o   Upload multiple files:

           gist a b c gist *.rb

       o   By default it reads from STDIN, and you can set a filename with -f.

           gist -f test.rb <a.rb

       o   Alternatively, you can just paste from the clipboard:

           gist -P

       o   Use -p to make the gist private:

           gist -p a.rb

       o   Use -d to add a description:

           gist -d "Random rbx bug" a.rb

       o   You can update existing gists with -u:

           gist lib/gist.rb bin/gist -u 42f2c239d2eb57299408

       o   If you'd like to copy the resulting URL to your clipboard, use -c.

           gist -c <a.rb

       o   If you'd like to copy the resulting embeddable URL to your
           clipboard, use -e.

           gist -e <a.rb

       o   And you can just ask gist to open a browser window directly with
           -o.

           gist -o <a.rb

       o   See gist --help for more detail.

Login
       If you want to associate your gists with your GitHub account, you need
       to login with gist. It doesn't store your username and password, it
       just uses them to get an OAuth2 token (with the "gist" permission).

           gist --login
           Obtaining OAuth2 access_token from github.
           GitHub username: ConradIrwin
           GitHub password:
           2-factor auth code:
           Success! https://github.com/settings/applications

       You can read the 2-factor auth code from an sms or the authentification
       app, depending on how you set your account up
       https://github.com/settings/admin.

       Note: 2-factor authentication just appeared recently
       https://github.com/blog/1614-two-factor-authentication, so if you run
       into errors, update the gist gem.

           gem update gist

       This token is stored in ~/.gist and used for all future gisting. If you
       need to you can revoke it from
       https://github.com/settings/applications, or just delete the file. If
       you need to store tokens for both github.com and a Github Enterprise
       instance you can save your Github Enterprise token in
       ~/.gist.github.example.com where "github.example.com" is the URL for
       your Github Enterprise instance.

       o   After you've done this, you can still upload gists anonymously with
           -a.

           gist -a a.rb

       You can also use Gist as a library from inside your ruby code:

       Gist.gist("Look.at(:my => 'awesome').code")

       If you need more advanced features you can also pass:

       o   :access_token to authenticate using OAuth2 (default is
           `File.read("~/.gist")).

       o   :filename to change the syntax highlighting (default is a.rb).

       o   :public if you want your gist to have a guessable url.

       o   :description to add a description to your gist.

       o   :update to update an existing gist (can be a URL or an id).

       o   :anonymous to submit an anonymous gist (default is false).

       o   :copy to copy the resulting URL to the clipboard (default is
           false).

       o   :open to open the resulting URL in a browser (default is false).

       NOTE: The access_token must have the "gist" scope.

       o   If you want to upload multiple files in the same gist, you can:

           Gist.multi_gist("a.rb" => "Foo.bar", "a.py" => "Foo.bar")

       o   If you'd rather use gist's builtin access_token, then you can force
           the user to obtain one by calling:

           Gist.login!

       o   This will take them through the process of obtaining an OAuth2
           token, and storing it in ~/.gist, where it can later be read by
           Gist.gist

GitHub enterprise
       o   If you'd like gist to use your locally installed GitHub Enterprise
           https://enterprise.github.com/, you need to export the GITHUB_URL
           environment variable in your ~/.bashrc.

           export GITHUB_URL=http://github.internal.example.com/

       o   Once you've done this and restarted your terminal (or run source
           ~/.bashrc), gist will automatically use github enterprise instead
           of the public github.com

Configuration
       o   If you'd like -o or -c to be the default when you use the gist
           executable, add an alias to your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent). For
           example:

           alias gist='gist -c'

       o   If you'd prefer gist to open a different browser, then you can
           export the BROWSER environment variable:

           export BROWSER=google-chrome

       If clipboard or browser integration don't work on your platform, please
       file a bug or (more ideally) a pull request.

       If you need to use an HTTP proxy to access the internet, export the
       HTTP_PROXY or http_proxy environment variable and gist will use it.

Meta-fu
       Thanks to @defunkt and @indirect for writing and maintaining versions 1
       through 3. Thanks to @rking and @ConradIrwin for maintaining version 4.

       Licensed under the MIT license. Bug-reports, and pull requests are
       welcome.

                                 February 2014                         GIST(1)