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In the Debug directory is a ruby script to check the returned JSON of the GitHub.com API. Authentication is optional and is done via HTTP Basic Auth in case a username and password are provided. Usage:
Debug/api.rb PATH [USERNAME] [PASSWORD]
Example:
Debug/api.rb user/repos your_github_username your_password
This scripts writes the output and additional debugging information to a log file in the Debug directory. Please attach the output of this script to your issues.
In case you are using a Ruby version prior to 1.9 (find out with ruby -v)
you will need to install the json gem with this command:
gem install json