http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=1005253

If you're working on a POD document and you want to upload it as a GitHub gist, just add the following to the top:

#!/usr/bin/env perl use App::gist; @ARGV = $0; App::gist->run;

... and mark the POD file as executable. Then run it. (Many programmers' text editors have a built-in command or hotkey to execute the current file.) Yay, it's uploaded to GitHub as a gist. This should give you a numeric gist identifier. Change the third line to:

@ARGV = ('-u', 412345, $0); # or whatever identifier

Now executing the file will update the existing gist in place.

Yet another reason to use POD over another markup language. :-)

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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Re: Self-updating github gists
by aufflick (Deacon) on Nov 29, 2012 at 01:39 UTC
    Wow, that's neat!