fingerer

Finger(er)

Finger(er) is a finger server that returns the GitHub profile associated with the provided username. Quickly lookup GitHub user and organization information using a standard finger command.

Syntax

finger [e-mail]

Response

+-[ User ]-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                            |
| Username: zachflower                 Full Name: Zachary Flower             |
| Website: http://zacharyflower.com    Email: [e-mail]         |
| Location: Boulder, CO                                                      |
|                                                                            |
+-[ Stats ]------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                            |
| Followers: 26            Following: 11            Repositories: 35         |
|                                                                            |
+-[ Biography ]--------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                            |
| Professional nerd, avid indoorsman, technical writer, contributor          |
| @fixateio, lead developer @emersonstone                                    |
|                                                                            |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Member since Sat Jul 16 19:20:34 2011

Background

Via Wikipedia:

The Name/Finger protocol, written by David Zimmerman, is based on Request for Comments document RFC 742 (December 1977) as an interface to the name and finger programs that provide status reports on a particular computer system or a particular person at network sites. The finger program was written in 1971 by Les Earnest who created the program to solve the need of users who wanted information on other users of the network. Information on who is logged-in was useful to check the availability of a person to meet. This was probably the earliest form of presence information for remote network users.

Prior to the finger program, the only way to get this information was with a who program that showed IDs and terminal line numbers (the server's internal number of the communication line, over which the user's terminal is connected) for logged-in users. Earnest named his program after the idea that people would run their fingers down the who list to find what they were looking for.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'fingerer'

And then execute:

bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

gem install fingerer

Usage

Usage: fingerer [options]
    -d, --daemonize                  Run as a background process
    -p, --port PORT                  Port to run on (default: 79)
    -l, --listen IP                  IP to listen on (default: 0.0.0.0)

Note: Finger(er) must be run as root, as fingerd is expected to be listening on port 79.

Contributing

• Fork it
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
• Create new Pull Request

License

Fingerer is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.