Thor Tasks

Contains a bunch of generators written in thor. What is a generator without a generator generator. Gen is then name of this one.

Gen

Gen is a generator generator. It is used to create new Thor generators. It generates them and sets up rspec for simple testing.

$ thor help gen
Tasks:
  thor gen:group NAME   # Generate a "class Name < Thor::Group generator
  thor gen:help [TASK]  # Describe available tasks or one specific task
  thor gen:single NAME  # Generate a "class Name < Thor" generator

gen:group

$ thor help gen:group
Usage:
  thor gen:group NAME

Options:
  -t, [--tasks=one two three]  # An list of tasks, generates one method per task

Example

$ thor gen:group group_task -t do_one do_two
      create  group_task.thor/main.thor
      create  group_task.thor/templates/sample.txt.tt
      create  group_task.thor/spec
      create  group_task.thor/spec/integration/main_spec.rb
      create  group_task.thor/spec/spec_helper.rb

gen:single

$ thor help gen:single
Usage:
  thor gen:single NAME

Options:
  -t, [--tasks=one two three]  # An list of tasks, generates one method per task

Generate a "class Name < Thor" generator

Example

$ thor gen:single new_task -t do_something
      create  new_task.thor/main.thor
      create  new_task.thor/templates/do_something/sample.txt.tt
      create  new_task.thor/spec
      create  new_task.thor/spec/integration/main_spec.rb
      create  new_task.thor/spec/spec_helper.rb

Testing

To simplify testing the generated spec_helper.rb contains two helper methods thor and file.

thor takes a string of arguments and runs Thor with them.

file takes a filename as parameter and returns a File object that is enhanced with two methods, exist? and contents, allowing us to write specs like this:

it 'should create the expected files' do
  thor('terminitor rails dummy')
  dummy_file.should exist
end

it 'should contain the name' do
  file('dummy/slides/01_intro.md').contents.should match(/# dummy #/)
end

Rubyscript

The rubyscript task generates a file that is set up with OptionParser parsing configured and options for help, verbose, and version.

$ thor rubyscript:generate new_script
      create  new_script.rb

Sinatra

The sintra task generates a Sintra project setup with a Gemfile for Bundler and with sinatra/reloader configured for development mode. It is also setup for testing with rspec and rack-test.

There are two ways to call the task:

$ thor help sinatra
Tasks:
  thor sinatra:create NAME      # Generate a new sinatra app
  thor sinatra:create_app NAME  # Generate a new sinatra app with class
  thor sinatra:help [TASK]      # Describe available tasks or one specific task

terminitor

The terminitor task generates a terminitor configuration file for different kinds of projects.

$ thor help terminitor
Tasks:
  thor terminitor:help [TASK]  # Describe available tasks or one specific task
  thor terminitor:jquery NAME  # Creates a terminitor config for jQuery
  thor terminitor:rails NAME   # Creates a terminitor config for Rails

The jQuery terminitor file sets up terminitor to open two tabs in the correct directory

• Livereload, uses RVM to use the system ruby.
• A bash shell

The rails terminitor file sets up terminitor to open five tabs in the correct directory

• Spork
• Autotest
• Livereload, uses RVM to use the system ruby.
• A Rails Server
• A bash shell