Read a file from github

Question

I want to read a file from github repository in my ruby script. Say I want to read Gemfile from my repo on github, URL for which would be like: " http://www.github.com/myrepo/blob/master/Gemfile ".

I tried using File.readLink("http://www.github.com/myrepo/blob/master/Gemfile") but this gives me error saying "'readlink': No such file or directory @ rb_readlink" .

How do I read a file using the github URL?

Answer 1

You should try to fetch raw content from github files like:

require 'net/http'

uri = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/username/myrepo/master/Gemfile"
uri = URI(uri)
file = Net::HTTP.get(uri)

Answer 2

With the below code, I was able to read the content of the file.

require 'open-uri'
raw_url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/username/myrepo/master/Gemfile"
open(raw_url) {|f|
  f.each_line {|line| p line}
}