Jist is a gem that allows you to publish a gist from Ruby.

Jist is a really simple library that wraps a single API call, you use it:

Jist.gist("Look.at(:my => 'awesome').code")

If you need more advanced features you can also pass:

• :username and :password to log in and post an authenticated gist.
• :filename to change the syntax highlighting (default is a.rb).
• :public if you want your hist to have a guessable url.
• :description to add a description to your gist.

It'd be nice to add a binary so that you can use it from your terminal. In the meantime you can use:

$ ruby -rjist -e'puts Jist.gist(ARGF.read)["html_url"]' <<EOF
Look.at(:my => 'awesome').code
EOF

I wrote this because the gist gem is out of action, and has been for many months.

It's licensed under the MIT license, and bug-reports, and pull requests are welcome.