When it comes to nerdy stuff, here I am.

In our office at The App Business, we have finally found a purpose for our old iPad 1: Status Board. We are displaying the status of builds on our Jenkins machine on our 40” TV.

But we want more. We want to be able to see the latest BitBucket’s issues of our all repositories.

So I wrote a simple ruby script which creates an html table of issues ordered by creation date and saves it on Dropbox.
You can find it on GitHub.

You have to setup the config inside the file issues.rb

config = {
  username: 'you',
  password: 'your_password',
  repo_owner: 'your_company_or_you',
  dropbox_folder: '/Users/marcosero/Dropbox/sync'
}

and then create a timed launcher for it. Something like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.marcosero.status_board_issues</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>ruby path/to/issues.rb</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>300</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

and then copy it and start it:

$ cp com.marcosero.status_board_issues.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
$ launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.marcosero.status_board_issues.plist