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A simple way to manage permissions on GitHub.

Create an enforcer script and then run it with the “enforcer” executable.

enforcer my_enforcer_script.rb

The DSL should be formed like such:

Enforcer "your github account", "your github api key" do
  project "project", "user1", "user2", "user3"

  postreceive "project", "http://rdoc.info/projects/update",
                         "http://example.com/post"
end

The users passed into the project are then set as the collaborators. Any users not listed are removed. You can also set postreceive URLs as well.

You could use a GitHub API wrapper like Octopi to load up your projects. Here’s a more complex example:

require 'octopi'
include Octopi
account = "thoughtbot"
token   = "deadbeef"

Enforcer account, token do
  authenticated_with account, token do |github|
    @projects = github.user.repositories.map { |repo| repo.name }.sort
  end

  users = %w[user1 user2 user3]

  @projects.each do |name|
    project name, *users
  end
end

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