jira-api gem is a simplified API to communicate with Jira
gem install jira-api
require 'rubygems' require 'jira-api' ENV['JIRA_URL'] = 'http://your.jira.com/' ENV['JIRA_USER_NAME'] = 'jira_user' ENV['JIRA_AUTH_MD5'] = 'md5(user:password)' ENV['JIRA_PROJECT_ID'] = '10001' # Create a new jira jira_browse_url = JIRA.create('title', 'description')
Casey Manion, author, http://github.com/caseman72