Dishwasher

A CLI tool written in Ruby to help you remove unneeded GitHub forks.

• Smart GitHub Integration: Automatically detects and uses GitHub CLI (gh) when installed and authenticated
• API Fallback: Falls back to GitHub API (via Personal Access Token) when gh CLI is not available
• Interactive Selection: Select which forks to delete using an interactive terminal interface
• Safe Deletion: Requires explicit confirmation before deleting any repositories

  gem install dishwasher

If you have GitHub CLI installed and authenticated, Dishwasher will automatically use it:

# First, authenticate with GitHub CLI
gh auth login

# Then run dishwasher
dishwasher

If GitHub CLI is not available, Dishwasher will prompt for a GitHub Personal Access Token:

dishwasher
# You'll be prompted to enter your GitHub Personal Access Token

You can also set the token as an environment variable:

export GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_token_here
dishwasher

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

• Ruby 3.0 or higher
• (Optional) GitHub CLI for enhanced GitHub integration
• (Optional) GitHub Personal Access Token if not using GitHub CLI

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/andrewmcodes/dishwasher. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

Everyone interacting in the Dishwasher project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.

This project uses Standard to minimize bike shedding related to code formatting.

Please run ./bin/standardize prior submitting pull requests.

This project uses RSpec for testing. Run the test suite with:

bundle exec rspec

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.