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Command line tools with
About me
Gilberto Alvarado
Software Engineer at Tacit Knowledge
- Programmer (sometimes)
- DevOps guy (sometimes)
- I like Ruby (a lot)
- @hackergil
- hackergil.com
Why?
- I needed a code generator
- I needed to stop writing shell scripts (annoying)
- Yehuda Katz (much appreciated)!
What's it for?
- Command line tools
- Code generation
- Replace rake
- Replace or emulate bash
- And more
Who uses it?
- Rails!
- Bundler Vagrant
- Spree
- And several other hundreds of gems
Features
- Pure Ruby!
- One task at a time or many tasks (groups)
- Optional and named options
- Common actions
- Erb templates
- Use it as thor tasks, as an executable or as a gem