This is a GitHub API resource built with nanoc.
All submissions are welcome. To submit a change, fork this repo, commit your changes, and send us a pull request.
Ruby 1.9 is required to build the site.
Get the nanoc gem, plus kramdown for markdown parsing:
bundle install
You can see the available commands with nanoc:
nanoc -h
Nanoc has some nice documentation to get you started. Though if you're mainly concerned with editing or adding content, you won't need to know much about nanoc.
Not sure how to structure the docs? Here's what the structure of the API docs should look like:
# API title
## API endpoint title
[VERB] /path/to/endpoint.json
### Parameters
name
: description
### Input (request json body)
<%= json :field => "sample value" %>
### Response
<%= headers 200, :pagination => true, 'X-Custom-Header' => "value" %>
<%= json :resource_name %>
Note: We're using Kramdown Markdown extensions, such as definition lists.
We specify the JSON responses in ruby so that we don't have to write them by hand all over the docs. You can render the JSON for a resource like this:
<%= json :issue %>
This looks up GitHub::Resources::ISSUE in lib/resources.rb.
Some actions return arrays. You can modify the JSON by passing a block:
<%= json(:issue) { |hash| [hash] } %>
You can specify terminal blocks with pre.terminal elements. It'd be
nice if Markdown could do this more cleanly...
<pre class="terminal">
$ curl foobar
....
</pre>
This isn't a curl tutorial though, I'm not sure every API call needs
to show how to access it with curl.
Nanoc compiles the site into static files living in ./output. It's
smart enough not to try to compile unchanged files:
$ nanoc compile
Loading site data...
Compiling site...
identical [0.00s] output/css/960.css
identical [0.00s] output/css/pygments.css
identical [0.00s] output/css/reset.css
identical [0.00s] output/css/styles.css
identical [0.00s] output/css/uv_active4d.css
update [0.28s] output/index.html
update [1.31s] output/v3/gists/comments/index.html
update [1.92s] output/v3/gists/index.html
update [0.25s] output/v3/issues/comments/index.html
update [0.99s] output/v3/issues/labels/index.html
update [0.49s] output/v3/issues/milestones/index.html
update [0.50s] output/v3/issues/index.html
update [0.05s] output/v3/index.html
Site compiled in 5.81s.
You can setup whatever you want to view the files. If you have the adsf gem, however (I hope so, it was in the Gemfile), you can start Webrick:
$ nanoc view
$ open http://localhost:3000
Compilation times got you down? Use autocompile!
$ nanoc autocompile
This starts a web server too, so there's no need to run nanoc view.
One thing: remember to add trailing slashes to all nanoc links!
$ rake publish
- Integrate through a simple hurl.it app for live API calls.
- Maybe add a nice TOC at the top of each page.
- Write a task for verifying JSON Resource examples against the actual API.