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I have something similar as a shell script which can take a file as argument or paste its stdin, but it is for a personal pastebin (well it is public but I don't see the necessity of advertising it).

I found this one which does something quite similar: http://sprunge.us/

Very nice.

Lots of use cases. For example, I use Stackoverflow a lot and I need to paste code rather than faff around with pastebin. I can see myself using this to get a gist URL in one click.

Ruby is not standard on Mac OS X. EDIT: actually it is, thanks the_french.

I would be happy to rewrite that in vanilla shell this evening.

That would be great!

In spite of the fact that Ruby is indeed standard on Mac OS X, a simple shell script would have been clearly lighter. However, for proper JSON escaping of the snippet, you need a full set of replacing rules, which kind of kills the purpose. So I give up.

IIRC ruby is in fact standard and was recently updated to be 2.0.0 on the latest version of OS X.

   /usr/bin/ruby -v
   ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [universal.x86_64-darwin13]

My bad! Completely forgot about that!

Considering that rvm and gems are a real pain in the azz, I think this could still benefit from a rewrite.

Use rbenv:

https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv

Best decision I've made.

That's a strange comment. OS X does indeed ship with Ruby. Maybe you are thinking about Rails? Or how developers often update it to a different version before using it? Mac OS X Mavericks includes Ruby 2.0.0p247.

Very useful concept. Could this be forked? I would love to see it in action on other platforms as well. And I would be glad to do it.

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