gyoza-languages is a simple interface that combines the speed of GitHub Linguist with the highly efficient Ruby web server Puma.

It allows to query an HTTP Rest API to retrieve the languages data from one or many repositories in a JSON format.

The application requires only a few arguments, but they are essential for its correct functioning.

A Ruby implementation of the Github linguist project with an integrated simple HTTP web server.

Usage: gyoza-languages [options]

    -p, --port PORT                 Starts the server with the specified port.
    -d, --directory DIRECTORY       Manually specifies the repositories directory.
    -h, --help                      Show this message

If the -d argument is not specified, a REPOSITORIES_DIRECTORY environment variable will be necessary.

The most important (and mandatory) parameter is the --directory: this represents the directory where all the repositories are stored. Defining a correct directory is crucial for managing the web server endpoints.

You can set one by either creating an environment variable with name REPOSITORIES_DIRECTORY or by directly specifying it using --directory (or -d).

Let's assume that the folder structure you choose looks like this:

repositories_directory:
    images:
        # a bunch of images
    gyoza-languages:
        # a clone of this repository
    my_repositories:
        super_awesome_repo:
            # another Git repository 

This means that all the directories in the folder will become endpoints, but only a few will be valid:

• /images will answer with 404 Not Found, as it is not a valid repository;
• /gyoza-languages is a valid repository and will return the correct answer;
• /my_repositories is NOT a valid repository, even though it contains other repositories. As such, it will answer with 404 Not Found;
• /my_repositories/super_awesome_repo is a valid repository.

Along with that, the query parameter branch is also available, meaning that it is possible to obtain the languages count from another branch. An example is: /myrepositories/super_awesome_repo?branch=dev (if not existing, a 404 Not found message will be returned).

gyoza-languages also provides an API for general purposes and one to interact with the server started by the application itself.

After importing the module using require 'gyoza-languages', two core classes are available:

• GyozaApp. This class offers five different methods that correspond to the HTTP request methods:

  • get(path, query, env);
  • post(path, query, env);
  • put(path, query, env);
  • patch(path, query, env);
  • delete(path, query, env).

  By overriding these methods, it is possible to implement custom responses for each one of the requests. The arguments passed are:

  • path: the corresponding path in a string format;
  • query: a hash that corresponds to the queried parameters;
  • env: a hash comprehending all the current environment variables and more data.

  If the HTTP method is not among the listed above, by overriding the call(env) function it is possible to access directly to the core responding function, and retrieve the method with env[REQUEST_METHOD];

• GyozaLanguageApp. This class is the heart of the application. It extends GyozaApp to provide support for GitHub Linguist when a GET request is done to the server.