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Comment on By Thor’s Hammer! by seydar

seydar — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:49:01 +0000

this is awesome! I’ve been using simpleconsole for a bit, but this looks really nice too!

what would be REALLY nice is something like this or simpleconsole for n/curses!

Comment on By Thor’s Hammer! by Phil

Phil — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:36:37 +0000

I still don’t get it. Why not patch rake to take command-line arguments in a sane way?

Comment on By Thor’s Hammer! by Don

Don — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:54:35 +0000

My initial reaction was… Why? But upon further thinking and browsing the source code, this is pretty cool stuff.

Comment on By Thor’s Hammer! by links for 2008-05-14 | Libin Pan

links for 2008-05-14 | Libin Pan — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:39:25 +0000

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Comment on By Thor’s Hammer! by links for 2008-05-14 at Topper’s Blog

links for 2008-05-14 at Topper’s Blog — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:37:16 +0000

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Comment on Better Threading in Mail.app by Thomas Aylott

Thomas Aylott — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:34:47 +0000

You can also just select both the inbox and sent mail folders at the same time, therefore combining all their contents on the right.

Comment on By Thor’s Hammer! by wycats

wycats — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:20:46 +0000

@Justin: The latest release of thor has built-in support for rspec, and the Thor project itself is now self-hosted. Simply add:

spec_task(Dir["spec/**/*_spec.rb"])

to any of your Thor classes. You can also customize it like so:

spec_task(Dir["spec/**/*_spec.rb"], :name => “rcov”, :rcov => {:exclude => %w(spec /Library /Users task.thor lib/getopt.rb)})

You can also add package/install tasks via: package_task / install_task (where install_task adds package_task by default).

Comment on By Thor’s Hammer! by vsnake

vsnake — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:00:17 +0000

Looks pretty cool!
I’ll be using it on the next script I need to work on. Thanks!

Comment on By Thor’s Hammer! by Rob J Sanheim

Rob J Sanheim — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:44:11 +0000

This looks very nice. One immediate advantaged I see over rake is that its plain old Ruby, so you can test the ‘tasks’ just as easily as anything else. With any substantial rake tasks I end up pulling out all the logic to class methods to make it testable, which always feel a little dirty. This would be a nice way around that.

Comment on By Thor’s Hammer! by Justin

Justin — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:03:34 +0000

This is definitely nice!

I’m all about writing scripts around my system to better maintain the files and things I have installed. I’ve been using Sake for sometime, but this make its much nicer.

Any chance of building in support for RSpec?

I tend to leave small spec files in the same directories as my scripts, but if I could just write them at the top of my Thor scripts, and then have them run quickly everytime I run the script that would be lovely.

Of course, I probably wouldn’t want that for larger scripts.