Sam is a Make-like utility which allows to specify tasks like Ruby's Rake do using plain Crystal code. This allows you to reuse existing application code base and/or include tasks from your dependencies.
Installation
Add this to your application's shard.yml
:
dependencies:
sam:
github: imdrasil/sam.cr
version: 0.4.0
After executing shards install
Sam-file will be added to the root of your project (unless you already have one).
Usage
Task
Tasks are the main unit in sam.cr
. Task has a name, a list of prerequisites and a list of actions (block of a code).
Sam extends the global context with own DSL. To define a task use task
method which accepts the task name as the 1st argument.
task "name" do
end
If you want to define prerequisites, add the array with their names as the 2nd argument:
task "name", ["prereq1", "prereq2"] do
end
Executing a task
Sam does no magic with your sam.cr
file - it is just a common .cr
source file which allows you to recompile it with any possible code you want such amount of times you need. Therefore the most obvious way to execute any task is:
$ crystal sam.cr name
In addition to this you are able to configure your makefile to invoke sam tasks. This allows you to use shorten variant
$ make sam name
To automatically modify your Makefile run
$ crystal sam.cr generate:makefile
This will modify existing Makefile or create new one. Be careful - this will silent all nonexisting makefile tasks on invocation.
To see a list of all available tasks with their descriptions:
$ crystal sam.cr help
To skip a task or prerequisite task:
$ crystal sam.cr name ~prereq2
Tasks with arguments
To pass arguments to your task just list them after it's name:
$ crystal sam.cr name john rob ned
They are passed to a task as a 2nd block argument.
task "name" do |_, args|
puts args[0].as(String)
end
args
here is an instance of Sam::Args
class that contains arguments and named arguments passed to each task. Any argument passed from a console is treated as a String
but Int32
and Float64
values also can be specified during task invocation from inside of another one.
Each task has own collection of arguments; only prerequisites shares with target task same
Args
instance.
Named argument also can be specified by the following ways:
-argument value
-argument "value with spaces"
argument=value
argument="value with spaces"
Two important restriction with named arguments usage and makefile-style task invocation:
--
should be placed to explicitly specify that specified named arguments belongs to task not to Makefile:
$ make sam name john
$ # but
$ make same name -- argument=john
- makefile doesn't support named arguments with
=
sign
To invoke More than one task list them one by one (including their arguments) separating them with @
symbol:
$ crystal sam.cr name john @ surname argument=snow
Accessing tasks programmatically
Sam allow you to invoke tasks within another ones and even passing own args object. To do this just call #invoke
method with task name (and arguments if needed) on task object passed as 1st argument:
task "name" do |t|
t.invoke("surname")
end
task "surname" do
puts "Snow"
end
If specified task was already invoked before - it will be ignored. To force task invocation - use #execute
.
Another task could be invoked from current using invoke
method. It has next signatures:
Namespaces
as projects grow amount of defined tasks grow as well. To simplify navigation and increase readability tasks can be grouped in namespaces:
namespace "main" do
task "build" do
# Build the main program
end
end
namespace "samples" do
task "build" do
# Build the sample programs
end
end
task "build", %w[main:build samples:build] do
end
Name resolution
When task is invoked from other one, provided path will float up through current task namespace and search given task path on each level until top level. Task could have same name as any existing namespace.
task "one" do
end
namespace "one" do
namespace "two"
task "test" do |t|
t.invoke("one")
end
end
end
In the example above next paths are checked (in given order):
one:two:one
one:one
one
(as task not namespace)
Share tasks
Sam tasks can be loaded from installed dependencies. To do this helper macro load_dependencies
can be used:
load_dependencies "lib1", "lib2"
This is translated to
require "./lib/lib1/tasks/sam.cr"
Development
Before running tests call
$ crystal examples/sam.cr setup
Contributing
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
- Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
- Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
- Create a new Pull Request
Contributors
- imdrasil Roman Kalnytskyi - creator, maintainer