Github Concern

Github Concern is a library to make integrating your application with github braindead simple. It has the following useful features:

• Provides a controller to respond to github post-push service hooks.
• Provides models to store the information github sends you.
• Provides a DSL for easily specifying which objects in your system should be associated with commits.
• Provides a DSL to specify actions in your system that should be taken as a result of specific commits being seen. For instance, in a time tracking system you might add something that responded to commits that had "[HOURS: 3.5]" in them by creating a WorkUnit in the system, associated with that commit, for 3.5 hours.

First, add github_concern to your Gemfile:

gem 'github_concern', :git => 'http://github.com/adamgamble/github_concern.git'

bundle install

Now github_concern is available to your application. Next, add a service hook to your github repo that posts to http://your_url/github_integration?token=some_unique_token

Add this to config/initializers/github_concern.rb:

GithubConcern::Engine.config do |gc|
  gc.user_lambda = lambda {|email| User.find_by_email email}
  gc.user_class  = User
  gc.token       = "some_unique_token"
end

You can adjust the lambda to fit your needs for determining a user.

You need to create tables to store the commits and pushes that the github web hook is going to be sending you. Run this command to install the migrations:

rake github_concern_engine:install:migrations

You can configure whatever models you want to be associated with the git pushes:

class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  github_concern :repo => :github_repo, :branch => :github_branch

  def github_concern_callback git_push
  end
end

:github_repo, and :github_branch represent attributes on the model

Now when someone pushes to a repo that has the service hook, information about that will be stored in the database and associated to whatever models specified. It will also call the github_concern_callback method on the object if it exists.

You can configure github_concern to call a class method to return objects to associate it doesn't have to be a scope, it could just be a class method that returns an array

class Ticket < ActiveRecord::Base
  github_concern :class_method => :for_repo_and_branch

  scope :for_repo_and_branch, lambda { |repo,branch| joins("INNER JOIN projects p ON p.id=tickets.project_id").where("p.git_repo='#{repo}' AND tickets.git_branch='#{branch}'")}
end

Fork our repo, make a feature branch, push to it. Send us a pull request. We'll communicate back and forth via the github interface. All contributions are welcome. Plase inform us of issues via the github issue tracker

• Adam Gamble
• Josh Adams

See the MIT-LICENSE file for details.