developer.github.com

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.

Development

You can fetch the latest dependencies by opening the command line and running script/bootstrap:

$ script/bootstrap
==> Installing gem dependencies…
==> Installing npm dependencies…

You'll need Ruby and Node installed on your system. The required versions for each of these languages can be found in the .ruby-version and package.json files, respectively.

You can run bundle exec rake build to generate the site, but it's often more useful to simply build the server and start the site at the same time.

Nanoc compiles the site into static files living in output. It's smart enough not to try to compile unchanged files.

You can start the site with script/server:

$ script/server
Loading site data...
Compiling site...
   create     [0.28s]  output/index.html
   create     [1.31s]  output/v3/gists/comments/index.html
   identical  [1.92s]  output/v3/gists/index.html
   identical  [0.25s]  output/v3/issues/comments/index.html
   update     [0.99s]  output/v3/issues/labels/index.html
   update     [0.05s]  output/v3/index.html
   …

Site compiled in 5.81s.

The site is hosted at http://localhost:4000.

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.

Enterprise

To generate the /enterprise versions, pass in the Enterprise version to script/server. For example:

$ script/server 2.6

Note that live reloading is not available for Enterprise documentation.

Styleguide

Not sure how to structure the docs? Here's what the structure of the API docs should look like:

# API title

{:toc}

## API endpoint title

    [VERB] /path/to/endpoint

### Parameters

Name | Type | Description
-----|------|--------------
`name`|`type` | Description.

### Input (request JSON body)

Name | Type | Description
-----|------|--------------
`name`|`type` | Description.

### Response

<%= headers 200, :pagination => default_pagination_rels, 'X-Custom-Header' => "value" %>
<%= json :resource_name %>

Note: We're using Kramdown Markdown extensions, such as definition lists.

JSON Responses

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] } %>

There is also a rake task for generating JSON files from the sample responses in the documentation:

$ rake generate_json_from_responses

The generated files will end up in json-dump/.

Terminal blocks

You can specify terminal blocks by using the command-line syntax highlighting.

``` command-line
$ curl foobar
```

You can use certain characters, like $ and #, to emphasize different parts of commands.

``` command-line
# call foobar
$ curl <em>foobar<em>
....
```

For more information, see the reference documentation.

Deploy

Deployments happen automatically once a PR is merged into master. A tool called Publisher takes the master branch, builds it using Nanoc, and publishes the content to gh-pages. Thus, any commit to master is automatically sent over to gh-pages, where it's picked up and served by GitHub Pages.

Licenses

The code to generate the site (everything excluding the assets, content, and layouts directories) as well as the code samples on the site are licensed under CC0-1.0. CC0 waives all copyright restrictions but does not grant you any trademark permissions.

Site content (everything in the assets, content, and layouts directories, excluding files under open source licenses individually marked) is licensed under CC-BY-4.0. CC-BY-4.0 gives you permission to use content for almost any purpose but does not grant you any trademark permissions, so long as you note the license and give credit, such as follows:

Content based on developer.github.com used under the CC-BY-4.0 license.

This means you can use the code and content in this repository except for GitHub trademarks in your own projects.

When you contribute to this repository you are doing so under the above licenses.