Github Stats

[jamesdabbs]

Due on Feb 19 @ 09:00am

Description

Pull and aggregate commit statistics from Github

Objectives

Learning Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should…

• Be able to make HTTP requests from Ruby
• Be able to iterate through the nested JSON responses that most APIs will return

  Performance Objectives

After completing this assignment, you be able to effectively use

• HTTParty (or similar) for making requests
• Parsed JSON responses

  Details

  Deliverables

• A script github-stats.rb

  Requirements

Running ruby github-stats.rb should:

• Prompt the user for an auth token (could be passed in the environment, via ARGV, or using gets)
• Prompt the user for a github organization to report on
• Produce a table of contributions

  Normal Mode

Get the list of all members in that organization, and then aggregate the addition, deletion and change counts (as returned from the contributors endpoint) for all public repositories for each user (note: not just contributions to repos for the organization).

The script should produce a table something like

              Additions     Deletions     Changes
User 1            13534          2954        6249
User 2             6940           913        1603
...

(or may produce a CSV output).

Hard Mode

• Save data locally so that repeated runs of the script don't need to fetch all the stats each time
• Allow the user to specify a time frame and only report on commits in that time frame

[ablythe]

https://github.com/ablythe/github_stats I'm close to being able to cut down on my runtime by avoiding unnecessary gets, but am having trouble conceptualizing where and how to check if the data already exists in my database.

[kdmcclin]

I'll have to get back to you on the runtime, but your output looks good.