Install with:

gem install gisterday 

Create Gists via the command line from existing files or on the fly. Authenticate with your GitHub account in order to store these Gists for later.

• Use gist [filename] in order to create a new anonymoust gist.
• If the file exists in the current directory, it will be pushed to a new Gist.
• If the file does not exist, Vim will be opened so the file can be created.

Open Vim in order to write a new Gist from scratch

gist 

Create a gist with the description "set a description", upload it anonymously, and create the gist using the contents of myfile.rb Alternatively, if myfile.rb does not exist, Vim will be opened to edit a new file called myfile.rb

gist -d "set a description" -a myfile.rb

• Use gist login to authenticate with your GitHub account.
• A personal access token will be created and stored in ~/.gisterday for access on subsequent uses of Gisterday.

• Use the flag -a to create the gist anonymously (skip auth). Note that unless a personal access token is stored in ~/.gisterday all Gists will be created anonymously.
• Use the flag -d to set a description for the Gist.
• Use the flag -v for a more verbose http response with the full response body.