ololx / simple-ram-disk

This is a simple macOS RAM disk utility, which allows to create new volume in RAM memory.

simple-ram-disk

This is a simple macOS RAM disk utility, which allows to create new volume in RAM memory.

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📇 Table of Contents

• About
• Demo
• Features
• Getting Started
• Built With
• Contributing
• Code of Conduct
• Versioning
• Authors
• Licensing

📖 About

This is a simple macOS RAM disk utility, which allows to create new volume in RAM memory.

📸 Demo

Usage

This animation demonstrates how is the simple to use this tool.

🎚 Features

• The simple tool which allows to create a ram disk.

To Do

• For more information on an upcoming development, please read the todo list.

Changelog

• For more information on a releases, a features and a changes, please read the changelog notes.

🚦 Getting Started

These instructions allow to get a copy of this project and run it on a local machine.

Prerequisites

Before using it, make sure that follows software are installed on the local machine:

• macOS - the operating system under which the process is executing;

If any of the listed programs is not installed, then it can be installed by instruction as described below.

1. macOS

   • Install macOS by this instruction.

Installing

In order to install it is enough to download executable file simple ram disk.app for the required release from this page:

https://github.com/ololx/simple-ram-disk/releases

If you want to install the source files it is quite simple to clone or donload this repository.

Cloning

For the cloning this repository to a local machine, just use the follows link:

https://github.com/ololx/simple-ram-disk.git

Using

For use it is required to:

1. Go to the directory where you download this tool (optionally):

   • via Finder;
   • via Terminal prompt;

   cd /{path to parent dir with this repository}/

2. Launch the tool in macOS (optionally):

   • via double-click on simple ram disk.app;
   • via Terminal prompt;

   open simple\ ram\ disk.app

3. Set the required disk values (name, size and size measurement).

4. Click on the create button.

5. Open new disk in Finder.

🛠 Built With

• Xcode - the IDE for the AppleScriptObjC automatisation development.

🎉 Contributing

If you want to contribute this project - you are welcome and have fun. Please visit the contributing section for details on this code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests or issues.

📝 Code of Conduct

In order to ensure that all is welcoming, please review and abide by the code of conduct.

🗒 Versioning

For the versioning is used Semantic Versioning. For the versions available, see the changelog or the tags on this repository.

©️ Authors

• Alexander A. Kropotin - Initial work - ololx.

🔏 Licensing

This project is licensed under the MIT license - see the lisence document for details.