First step with rugged

Gemfile

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ gem 'omniauth-twitter'
 gem 'omniauth-github'
 # Extracting information from a git repository
+gem 'rugged', '~> 0.17.0.b7'
 gem "gitlab-grit", '~> 1.0.0', require: 'grit'
 gem 'grit_ext', '~> 0.8.1'

Gemfile.lock

@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ GEM
     ruby-progressbar (1.0.2)
     rubyntlm (0.1.1)
     rubyzip (0.9.9)
+    rugged (0.17.0.b7)
     sanitize (2.0.3)
       nokogiri (>= 1.4.4, < 1.6)
     sass (3.2.7)
@@ -565,6 +566,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   redcarpet (~> 2.2.2)
   redis-rails
   rspec-rails
+  rugged (~> 0.17.0.b7)
   sass-rails (~> 3.2.5)
   sdoc
   seed-fu

app/models/repository.rb

@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ class Repository
     @repo ||= Grit::Repo.new(path_to_repo)
   end
+  def rugged
+    @rugged ||= Rugged::Repository.new(path_to_repo)
+  end
+
   def commit(commit_id = nil)
     Commit.find_or_first(repo, commit_id, root_ref)
   end
@@ -64,17 +68,17 @@ class Repository
   # Returns an Array of branch names
   def branch_names
-    repo.branches.collect(&:name).sort
+    branches.map(&:name).sort
   end
   # Returns an Array of Branches
   def branches
-    repo.branches.sort_by(&:name)
+    rugged.branches.sort_by(&:name)
   end
   # Returns an Array of tag names
   def tag_names
-    repo.tags.collect(&:name).sort.reverse
+    rugged.tags.sort.reverse
   end
   # Returns an Array of Tags