Use Github API for listing releases to download

app/github.js

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+var github = require('octonode');
+
+var githubReleases = {
+	fetch: function (user, repo, cb) {
+		var client = github.client();
+
+		var repo = client.repo(user + '/' + repo);
+
+		repo.releases(function (err, status, body) {
+			if (err) {
+				return cb(err);
+			}
+
+			if (status !== 200) {
+				return cb(new Error("Bad response from Github API: "));
+			}
+
+			var releases = body.reduce(function (memo, releaseInfo) {
+				memo[releaseInfo.name] = releaseInfo;
+			}, {});
+
+			cb(null, releases);
+		});
+	}
+};
+
+module.exports = githubReleases;

app/index.js

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ var util = require('util');
 var path = require('path');
 var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
 var yeoman = require('yeoman-generator');
+var githubReleases = require('./github');
 
 
 var GhostGenerator = module.exports = function GhostGenerator(args, options, config) {
@@ -18,22 +19,38 @@ var GhostGenerator = module.exports = function GhostGenerator(args, options, con
 util.inherits(GhostGenerator, yeoman.generators.Base);
 
 GhostGenerator.prototype.askFor = function askFor() {
+  var self = this;
   var cb = this.async();
 
   // have Yeoman greet the user.
   console.log(this.yeoman);
 
-  var prompts = [{
-    type: 'input',
-    name: 'version',
-    message: 'What version of Ghost do you want to download?',
-    default: '0.3.3'
-  }];
-
-  this.prompt(prompts, function (props) {
-    this.version = props.version;
-    cb();
-  }.bind(this));
+  // Grab the github releases for Ghost
+  githubReleases.fetch('TryGhost', 'Ghost', function (err, releases) {
+    // Store the available release map for later.
+    self.availableReleases = releases;
+
+    // Store the release names as the choices
+    var choices = [];
+    for(var key in releases) {
+      if (!releases.hasOwnProperty(key)) { continue; }
+
+      choices.push(key);
+    }
+
+    var prompts = [{
+      type: 'list',
+      name: 'version',
+      message: 'What version of Ghost do you want to download?',
+      choices: choices,
+      default: '0.3.3'
+    }];
+
+    self.prompt(prompts, function (props) {
+      self.version = props.version;
+      cb();
+    });
+  });
 };
 
 GhostGenerator.prototype.app = function app() {

package.json

@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "yeoman-generator": "~0.13.0",
-    "fs-extra": "~0.8.1"
+    "fs-extra": "~0.8.1",
+    "octonode": "~0.4.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "mocha": "~1.12.0"

test/test-creation.js

@@ -20,14 +20,17 @@ describe('ghost generator', function () {
     });
 
     it('creates expected files', function (done) {
+        // Extend the timeout since the github release download takes some time
+        this.timeout(10000);
+
         var expected = [
             // add files you expect to exist here.
-            '.jshintrc',
-            '.editorconfig'
+            'Gruntfile.js',
+            'core/ghost.js'
         ];
 
         helpers.mockPrompt(this.app, {
-            'someOption': true
+            'version': '0.3.3'
         });
         this.app.options['skip-install'] = true;
         this.app.run({}, function () {