Introducing Octokit

https://github.com/blog/1517-introducing-octokit

by JiPi • 13 years ago

119 47 13 years ago

JiPi2• 13 years ago

I have been using octokit for a while now and it is by far the best wrapper around for Ruby. Just make sense to have it official now that Wynn Netherland is working @ GitHub.

whichdan• 13 years ago

Where can I buy the 1/100 model?

jdorfman• 13 years ago

Who designed http://octokit.github.io/ ? So fresh and so clean. @mdo must have had a hand in it...

netherland• 13 years ago

@bryanveloso did the site, @jeejkang did the illustrations

Munksgaard2• 13 years ago

The font for the introduction looks a bit off here, but otherwise I agree.

karanlyons• 13 years ago

My bet's on Bryan Veloso, just going by the Japanese sub headings.

sejje• 13 years ago

Shouldn't the ruby guy be dressed less like a robot and more like Robin Hood?

rolfvandekrol• 13 years ago

Looks cool! But why the Japanese?

Munksgaard2• 13 years ago

For anyone wondering, the texts simply say "Ruby", "Objective-C" and "Thank You!" at the bottom (at least according to Google Translate).

Raphael• 13 years ago

Like Gundam kits.

doktrin• 13 years ago

This looks promising. In the past I've largely defaulted to calling the REST API directly instead of relying on wrappers - primarily since using a wrapper has basically meant looking up 2 sets of documentation (1 for the REST API itself, and again for the wrapper).

IIRC I had the same frustration the last time I attempted to use Octokit (~5 months ago). GitHub maintaining it directly may well alleviate the pain points I experienced. It would help, for instance, to have the wrapper documentation run parallel with that of the REST API itself.

MaxGabriel• 13 years ago

Frameworks and Git submodules?! I wish Cocoapods were the recommended installation method, as Ruby Gems are for Octokit.rb. Just look at how complex the Octokit.objc installation instructions are.

stevenleeg• 13 years ago

I actually opened an issue about this, which was closed pretty quickly because apparently they don't use CocoaPods internally:

https://github.com/octokit/octokit.objc/issues/61

monkey_slap2• 13 years ago

I'm attempting to create a podspec, but the script/bootstrap part stuck me. Not sure if Cocoapods has capabilities to do that. Would be nice to just strip out all of the submodule parts and include the dependencies.

jacobwg• 13 years ago

A JavaScript version of this would be really nice...

jackbravo• 13 years ago

Is it just me? Those drawing remind me a lot of the samurai pizza cats!

http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Samurai-Pizza-...

scott_karana4• 13 years ago

Samurai Pizza Cats was modeled after shows like Gundam, which these Octocats are also adapted from. :)

jentulman• 13 years ago

Anyone else really want Octocat Gunplas to build and paint now?

monkey_slap2• 13 years ago

I'm surprised Cocoapods isn't being used with this.

jonsterling• 13 years ago

Yeah, the GitHub folks don't use Cocoapods internally.

scott_karana4• 13 years ago

Anyone else have blurriness with the SVG octocats on the page itself?

In Firefox 21 on Windows 7, they're decidedly low resolution, but I open them directly [1] they look fine. They render fine in Chrome.

1 http://octokit.github.io/images/gundam-ruby.svg

lukedubber• 13 years ago

I have the same issue with Firefox 20.0.1 on Windows 7 64. Chrome it looks great.

scott_karana4• 13 years ago

Turns out that it's a bug with Firefox's rasterization. :(

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600207

danso2• 13 years ago

Given the mascot art for this, shouldn't the library be named "Octotron" or "Octocon"?

JiPi2• 13 years ago

The library was already existing, changing name and namespace for a mascot would probably not make sense ;)

danso2• 13 years ago

I should've said that my comment was meant to be read in Comic Book Guy voice :).

tharshan09• 13 years ago

wow the octocats are amazing. I was to see a colour version!

cuttooth• 13 years ago

I dislike the lack of documentation for the Objc version.

Edit/addendum: The Ruby version is fine and I'm glad they've made it the official library.

jspahrsummers• 13 years ago

We do need some examples, but the headers are documented quite extensively, FWIW.

Stratoscope4• 13 years ago

Well, that's quite a change in branding.

Your sword? Your shield? The cute little octocat is now a scowling angry warrior robot?

I must be old and out of touch: I don't understand the appeal of this violent imagery. I thought GitHub was about working together, helping each other out, not slaying your foes.

I like the old octocat and octokitten better:

http://assets.github.com/images/modules/dashboard/bootcamp/o...

duvet• 13 years ago

the octocats here are a reference to gundam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gundam

I seriously doubt the reference is meant to be violent.

Stratoscope4• 13 years ago

Thanks, I appreciate knowing the cultural reference. I figured it must be something along those lines, but wasn't familiar with the specifics.

But... Not meant to be violent? Even if the robocats themselves are not meant to be violent, how could the introductory language about "your sword" and "your shield" be interpreted as anything but violent?

The only time I can imagine needing a sword and shield would be in a rather violent situation. Quite the opposite of the experience one might hope to have on GitHub.

timcameronryan• 13 years ago

The Octocat used here and in the API control panel[1] reminds me of robot anime (Gundam Wing, etc.) or perhaps Speed Racer. I don't think it's meant to be warrior-like, but futuristic.

[1] https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/images/modules/b...

outside12342• 13 years ago

they'll save the nice imagery for the Javascript library.

scott_karana4• 13 years ago

There have always been loads of Octocat variations[1] of "violent" cartoon characters, such as Wolverine[2]. I don't think anything is intended literally.

1 http://octodex.github.com/

2 http://octodex.github.com/xtocat/

Stratoscope4• 13 years ago

Ah, that is a neat collection. Xtocat may be a bit extreme for my taste, but no worries.

I understand that this stuff is all in fun and shouldn't be taken literally, I just had a rather negative gut reaction to the sword and shield and scowling. Maybe it's useful for people to know that this kind of thing will bring up negative reactions in some people. Or maybe not.

outside12342• 13 years ago

is there an npm module? :)

jethroalias97• 13 years ago

When I first read 'GitHub-maintained client libraries' I initially thought they meant built in libraries or templated stub functions, sort of like what they offer for .gitignore for various programming environments and languages. I was a little disappointed when I saw it was just for the Github API, although I expect this to still be useful.

I feel like this is something they could offer in the future though as many IDEs automatically build your environment when a new project is initialized. Assuming you use github as your IDE (i.e. not really using any IDE) project initialization might make sense.

roryokane• 13 years ago

Giter8 (https://github.com/n8han/giter8) sounds like what you’re looking for. “Giter8 is a command line tool to generate files and directories from templates published on github or any other git repository.”

HaloZero• 13 years ago

Just because I'm a massive nerd and anyone else is wondering this.

It looks left the left suit is modeled after the God Gundam (Burning Gundam in the US) in G Gundam.

The right suit seems to be the Abyss Gundam in Gundam SEED Destiny.

nicholassmith• 13 years ago

I would buy those on stickers in an absolute heartbeat. I'm not saying they're the best part of the projects, but they're pretty awesome.

SEJeff• 13 years ago

Y U NO PYTHON? :(

I am disappoint

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