GitLab Hook

• If you're missing GitHub Twitter hook when using GitLab, you just found a solution.

Installation

Twitter

• Log into https://dev.twitter.com/apps
• Click on Create a new application.
• Fill out everything needed and click on Create your Twitter application.
• Now in Settings tab, set Access: to Read and Write and save it.
• Keep this page open or copy all the tokens and keys from Details tab. You'll need them in a while.

Bit.ly

• If you don't have account on bit.ly, create one.
• Log into your account, and copy your Api Key from Settings tab.

Your computer

• Clone this repository: git clone git@github.com:SmartMedia/gitlab-hook.git
• Create Heroku Cedar application: heroku create <APP_NAME> --stack cedar
• Setup variables based on your Twitter Details and Bitly Settings tab:
• For GITLAB_ACCESS_TOKEN use some random string.

heroku config:add \
GITLAB_ACCESS_TOKEN='' \
BITLY_USERNAME='' \
BITLY_API_KEY='' \
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY='' \
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET='' \
TWITTER_OAUTH_TOKEN='' \
TWITTER_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET=''

• Put your
• If you want to test localy, setup the same variables used by application in all *.yml.erb files in config directory.
• git push heroku

GitLab

• Open your project.
• Select Hooks tab.
• Fill out URL of your Heroku app with access_token parameter. (eg. http://<APP_NAME>.herokuapp.com/?access_token=<GITLAB_ACCESS_TOKEN>)
• Press "Test Hook"
• Enjoy your Twitter timeline.

Setting this hook for every project in GitLab

• SSH to your GitLab server. Navigate to gitlab directory and run rails c production

# If you already have this hook on some project, you can use url = WebHook.first.url
url = 'http://<APP_NAME>.herokuapp.com/?access_token=<GITLAB_ACCESS_TOKEN>'
Project.all.each do |project|
  project.web_hooks << WebHook.create(url: url) if project.web_hooks.empty?
end