Adding organization repos to Travis-CI: Part I
It was a nice Friday, Porras and I were at the BeBanjOffice and we were working on adding organization support to Travis-CI.
First, we needed to find where the user repos were being fetch. Said and done, we found that travis is using the ServiceHookController to ask the server for repos (and to update them too, but don’t hurry, we’ll get there in part II). The controller was using the github_repositories method in the User model. Finally, we arrived to Travis::GithubApi, where all our questions found answers.
repositories_for_user just relied on Octokit#repositories for getting the repos, so we added all the code after the plus sign. You might think that this code lacks the proper security, is wrong and that it shouldn’t be there (and damn it, you’re right!) but there is no easy way to retrieve only the repos where the user has admin privileges (we wasted hours on this and a quick message to Github confirmed it). Basically, it asks for all organizations for the given user (beware! You need to make your membership public, otherwise it won’t work) and then flat_map them to the repos in the given organization (whether the user can administrate them or not).
Later, the each block was added so we could know whether the repo belongs to the user or to an organization.
Stop! Hammertime!
We needed a way to let the user know that a repo actually belongs to an organization, so we added that info to the template (that {{#if content.organization_name}} is ours 
) and added some style so it could look this awesome:
We had some tough time trying to get it vertically centered, but after realizing that Github has its tags the same way as we do, we stop trying to fix it. And they still look awesome.
More coming in part II.
