Your open-source talks place. Backend part.

This is a backend part of ost.io application.

Ostio api is built with Rails.

• Copy nginx.conf to your nginx dir: sudo cp nginx.conf /etc/nginx/api.conf
• Restart nginx: sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
• Add your GitHub app id / secret to ENV:

# This is id / secret of example app. Callback URL for it:
# http://dev.ost.io:3000/auth/github
export GITHUB_APP_ID='b99404045c3917fd6be4'
export GITHUB_APP_SECRET='fedbf022667be7056bcaca9568e55151b219c660'

• Restart thin webserver: sudo killall thin && thin start -C thin.yml

Current API version is v1. You need to prepend v1/ to app requests except auth.

• Users
• Topics
• Repos
• Posts

All requests that change state (POST, PUT, DELETE) require authentication.

Currently only authentication via GET param is supported.

Just add ?access_token=x to your URLs. Access token can be get when user logs in (any request to /auth/github).

:username is a user name user has on GitHub.

GET /users/:username

Example: http://api.ost.io/v1/users/paulmillr

DELETE /users/:username

:repo_name is a repository name it has on GitHub.

GET /users/:username/repos/

Example: http://api.ost.io/v1/users/paulmillr/repos/

POST /users/:username/repos/

GET /users/:username/repos/:repo_name

Example: http://api.ost.io/v1/users/paulmillr/repos/ostio

:topic_number is a number, local to current repository.

GET /users/:username/repos/:repo_name/topics/

Example: http://api.ost.io/v1/users/paulmillr/repos/ostio/topics/

POST /users/:username/repos/:repo_name/topics/

Input:

• title: Required string

GET /users/:username/repos/:repo_name/topics/:topic_number

Example: http://api.ost.io/v1/users/paulmillr/repos/ostio/topics/1

PUT /users/:username/repos/:repo_name/topics/:topic_number

Input:

• title: Required *string&

DELETE /users/:username/repos/:repo_name/topics/:topic_number

GET /users/:username/repos/:repo_name/topics/:topic_number/posts/

Example: http://api.ost.io/v1/users/paulmillr/repos/ostio/topics/1/posts/

POST /users/:username/repos/:repo_name/topics/:topic_number/posts/

Input:

• text: Required *string

GET /users/:username/repos/:repo_name/topics/:topic_number/posts/:id

Example: http://api.ost.io/v1/users/paulmillr/repos/ostio/topics/1/posts/8

PUT /users/:username/repos/:repo_name/topics/:topic_number/posts/:id

Input:

• text: Required *string

DELETE /users/:username/repos/:repo_name/topics/:topic_number/posts/:id

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