Save clipboard contents as private gist using Alfred.app

upload-clipboard.rb

# It'd be great to get this running via AppleScript and sans Alfred if anyone with more knowledge than me knows how :)

### STEP 1
#!/bin/sh

# Save this file as /bin/rvm_ruby, and do chmod 755 /bin/rvm_ruby
# to give it the proper permissions
# From http://www.aeonscope.net/2011/05/29/connecting-alfred-to-bitly-via-ruby/

if [[ -s ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]]; then
  . ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
fi

ruby_version=$1; shift
rvm $ruby_version
exec ruby "$@"

### STEP 2
# Save this file somewhere, anywhere, that you can reference it

require 'curb'
require 'URI'
require 'json'
# This one is tricky. For installation, see https://github.com/dewind/real-growl
# Only do if you want growl notifications of completion
require 'real_growl'

username           = "your_github_username"
password           = "your_github_password"
gist_post_url      = "https://api.github.com/gists"
clipboard_contents = IO.popen( "pbpaste", "r+" ).read
filename           = ARGV[0] || "gist"

gist_data                                = {}
gist_data[:public]                     ||= false
gist_data[:files]                      ||= {}
gist_data[:files][filename]            ||= {}
gist_data[:files][filename][:content]  ||= {}
gist_data[:files][filename][:content]    = clipboard_contents

c = Curl::Easy.http_post( gist_post_url, gist_data.to_json ) do |curl|
  curl.headers["content-type"] = "application/json"
  curl.http_auth_types         = :basic
  curl.username                = username
  curl.password                = password
end

result = JSON.parse( c.body_str )
url    = result["html_url"]

IO.popen( "pbcopy", "r+" ).puts url

# Only do if you want growl notifications of completion
# Save an icon somewhere you can reference it to display with your growl notification.
# I used this one:
# http://cardboardsoftware.com/images/apps/githubissues-icon-trans.png

notification = RealGrowl::Application.new("Gist")
notification.notify( :title => "Gist Uploaded", 
                     :description => "#{url} was copied to your clipboard.", 
                     :priority => 0, 
                     :sticky => false, 
                     :icon => "absolute_path_to_an_image_youd_like_to_use")

### STEP 3
# Set this command up as an Alfred.app extension here: http://d.pr/tT8l
# (Probably required Alfred power pack)
# Use the appropriate rvm_ruby where you've downloaded the requisite gems

rvm_ruby ruby-1.9.2-p290 ~/Library/Scripts/Webdev\ Tasks/upload-gist.rb {query}

### Step 4
# Run it like so:

1. Copy whatever you want to upload to your clipboard
2. Invoke Alfred
3. Type "gist " and the name of the file you'd like to create
4. Hit enter, and a URL will be copied to your clipboard

Not sure how I missed this a couple of days ago, but I just wrote a pure-bash extension for Alfred to do this...

http://pjkh.com/projects/alfredgist/