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Clean up lots of little things in the docs
- Fix spelling errors - Make individual sections more consistent with eachother - Show real json for input and response instead of ruby hashes (required adding yajl-ruby gem) - Clarified a few parts of the gist api docs - and more!
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‎Gemfile.lock‎

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cri (>= 1.0.0)
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‎content/v3/gists.md‎

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# Gists API
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The Gist API v3 has been unified into the core GitHub API and can be
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accessed via the domain api.github.com. SSL is required so the base url
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for all API calls should be: `https://api.github.com`.
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Please see the [summary](/v3/) for a complete description of the API
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including information about data format and authentication.
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## List gists
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## List a user's gists
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List a user's gists:
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GET /users/:user/gists
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### Response
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<%= headers 200, :pagination => true %>
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<%= json(:gist) { |h| [h] } %>
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## List your gists
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This will return a list of your gists, or if called anonymously it will
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return a list of all public gists.
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List the authenticated user's gists or if called anonymously, this will
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GET /gists
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### Response
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The response is identical to [listing a user's gists](#list-a-users-gists).
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## List public gists
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This will return a list of all public gists.
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### Response
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The response is identical to [listing a user's gists](#list-a-users-gists).
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<%= json(:gist) { |h| [h] } %>
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"old_name.txt" => {"filename" => "new_name.txt", "content" => "modified contents"},
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