Read a private file from Github in Ruby-CodePudding

Looked at this for initial solutions. However, the file I want to reference in my rails project is in a private file. When I perform the following code:

  uri = URI("https://.../config.yml")
  file = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
  config = YAML.load(file)

The 'file' has the contents of the sign-in page of github. Is it possible to pass credentials to access this private repo's file? Additionally, is this safe to do?

CodePudding user response：

You have to set the credentials via a header. Something like this should work

token = "123"
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req['Authorization'] = "Token #{token}"

res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port) {|http|
  http.request(req)
}

Otherwise I also suggest to just use the Github client library Octokit.