All I get is "nil". about gist

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Maybe try the gem version of gist, via gem install gist? At least then you can try loading up the gist library in IRB and use it to see what's going on.

Not sure how to do it. But the gem version outputted "nil" as well.

Oh well, copy & paste works as well ;)

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I'm sorry you're having trouble -- I don't really have any ideas. It works just fine for me both standalone and as a gem.

I would really love to know how I can debug this. Not fluent with Ruby at all. And I'm not sure how to utilize the gem.

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okay, here's how to manually use the gem:

$ gem install gist
Successfully installed gist-2.0.2
1 gem installed

$ irb
>> require 'gist'
=> true
>> Gist.write [:input => "testing"], true
=> "https://gist.github.com/e6586a128773f71e47e8"

Thank you so much!

But, yet nil is still displayed. No error message at all.

Oh well, I don't want to take more of your time :) Thank for the help. Much appreciated ;)

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Very strange. That means that, somehow, the HTTP request to gist.github.com is completing without an error, but the response is not including a "Location" header. I take it the gist that you are trying to create is not actually showing up at gist.github.com?

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Okay, this is really bugging me. So here is an example of manually putting through a request to the gist server, using the gist gem to set up the data for the request. When you do this, if you copy and paste the response to return to me, please X out the "token" value, and the "_gh_sess" value (like I did below) so that they can't be used to steal your github account.

$ irb

>> require 'gist'
=> true
>> irb Gist
>>     url = URI.parse(CREATE_URL)
=> #<URI::HTTPS:0x103293840 URL:https://gist.github.com/gists>
>>     if PROXY_HOST
>>         proxy = Net::HTTP::Proxy(PROXY_HOST, PROXY_PORT)
>>         http  = proxy.new(url.host, url.port)
>>       else
?>           http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
>>       end
=> #<Net::HTTP gist.github.com:443 open=false>
>>     http.use_ssl = true
=> true
>>     http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER
=> 1
>>     http.cert = OpenSSL::X509::Certificate.new(ca_cert)
=> #<OpenSSL::X509::Certificate subject=/C=US/O=RSA Data Security, Inc./OU=Secure Server Certification Authority, issuer=/C=US/O=RSA Data Security, Inc./OU=Secure Server Certification Authority, serial=3558802160848854062232407011527417280, not_before=Wed Nov 09 00:00:00 UTC 1994, not_after=Thu Jan 07 23:59:59 UTC 2010>
>>     req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
=> #<Net::HTTP::Post POST>
>> req.form_data = data([:input => "testing"], true)
=> {"file_contents[gistfile1]"=>"testing", "file_ext[gistfile1]"=>".txt", "file_name[gistfile1]"=>nil, :token=>"xxxx", "action_button"=>"private", :login=>"indirect"}
>> response = http.start{|h| h.request(req) }
=> #<Net::HTTPFound 302 Found readbody=true>
>> response["Location"]
=> "https://gist.github.com/5a821a0efed442100453"
>> response.each_header{}
=> {"strict-transport-security"=>["max-age=2592000"], "location"=>["https://gist.github.com/5a821a0efed442100453"], "connection"=>["keep-alive"], "content-type"=>["text/html; charset=utf-8"], "x-runtime"=>["312ms"], "date"=>["Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:43:53 GMT"], "server"=>["nginx/0.7.67"], "content-length"=>["110"], "set-cookie"=>["_gh_sess=xxxx; path=/; expires=Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT; secure; HttpOnly"], "cache-control"=>["no-cache"], "status"=>["302 Found"]}

Using the latest commit, I where able to track down the problem to be my token were wrong :) Since I had changed my password a while back.

Thank you :)

However, when I gisted my .vimrc file it, I had the strange error Creating gist failed: 302 "Found", yet the Gist were created.

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Ah! Good catch... 302 found actually means the gist worked! Sounds like the patch I pulled doesn't handle that case correctly. :) Thanks!

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Fixed in 284dd9b.

How come I don't see the commit, nor can pull it?

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Because I'm silly, and pushed to my fork but not the main repo :) Fixed now!

Thank you :)