Since I don't usually have ruby installed, I wrote my own python version of a command line gist client based on defunkt's ruby code.
Python
MIT
Matt Kemp (matt@mattikus.com)
Matt Kemp (matt@mattikus.com)
You can download this project in either zip or tar formats.
You can also clone the project with Git by running:
$ git clone git://github.com/mattikus/pygist