Thor is a scripting framework that replaces Rake, Sake and RubiGen.
Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.
It is a scripting framework that replaces Rake, Sake and RubiGen.
Thor is open source and on github.
Questions tagged [thor]
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Rake vs. Thor for automation scripts?
I want to automate things like:
Creating a new Ruby on Rails application with pre-selected database, Git initialize it, create a Heroku project, commit all files, etc.
Upload all files in folder to another computer through SSH, but do not overwrite…
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Run a CLI Thor app without arguments or task name
I'm looking for a way to create a command-line thor app that will run a default method without any arguments. I fiddled with Thor's default_method option, but still requires that I pass in an argument. I found a similar case where someone wanted to…
dhulihan
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How to compose Thor tasks in separate classes/modules/files?
I'm having some trouble getting Thor to do this, so hopefully someone can point out what I'm doing wrong.
I have a main class class MyApp < Thor that I want to break out into separate files for multiple namespaces, like thor create:app_type and…
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Boson vs Thor for console applications
Has anyone used both Boson and Thor?
Thor is very popular and has more followers and contributers than Boson, but Boson looks far more powerful than Thor and the architecture is very well thought out.
In Boson you:
can add methods that are used…
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Where can I find good examples of testing a Thor script with RSpec?
Where can I find good examples of testing a Thor script with RSpec?
My searches have so far not turned up anything good.
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Namespacing thor commands in a standalone ruby executable
When calling thor commands on the command line, the methods are namespaced by their module/class structure, e.g.
class App < Thor
desc 'hello', 'prints hello'
def hello
puts 'hello'
end
end
would be run with the command
thor…
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Adding a --version option to a Ruby Thor CLI
How do I add a --version option to my Ruby Thor command line interface application.
For example I want to be able to run
$ thor_app --version
> thor_app version 1.0.0
This question is related to Run a CLI Thor app without arguments or task name,…
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How you do specify multiple arguments or parameters in Thor?
my_gem hello name1 name2 name3 give me a
my_gem hello requires at least 1 argument: my_gem hello name
Should I just parse them and separate the arguments with a delimeter?
e.g
my_gem hello name1,name2,name3,nameN
In the file it would look…
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Thor & YAML outputting as binary?
I'm using Thor and trying to output YAML to a file. In irb I get what I expect. Plain text in YAML format. But when part of a method in Thor, its output is different...
class Foo < Thor
include Thor::Actions
desc "bar", "test"
def set
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Thor Executable - Ignore Task Name
The thor wiki page, Making an Exectable, shows you how to create a thor powered CLI command that looks something like this:
bash
./mythorcommand foo
This requires you to pass in the thor task foo as the first argument.
I can also run a thor…
dhulihan
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How to make two thor tasks share options?
With Thor one can use method_option to set the options for a particular task. To set the options for all tasks in a class one can use class_option. But what about the case where one wants some tasks of a class, but not all, to share options?
In the…
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Passing options to template function in thor
I am looking for a way to pass options to the ERB templating engine in thors template action.
I stumbled upon the bundler cli source where thors template action is being used like this:
opts = {:name => name,
:constant_name => constant_name,
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Interactive prompt with thor
I want to somehow ask the user to say their flickr_id, flickr_apikey and that stuff, but id' be most happy to do it under my install command so it dosn't end up being such a long and heavy line because of alle the arguments.
so something like
$ thor…
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Call task more than once in Rails 3 generator
I'm writing a Rails 3 generator that creates two different models. Here's a very simplified example of what I'm trying to do:
def my_generator_task
invoke "model", ["foo"]
invoke "model", ["bar"]
end
The problem is that the Thor invoke method…
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Ruby/Thor exit status in case of an error
I'm new to Thor (and to Ruby) and I'm considering using it within a build script, as it's said it can be a replacement to Rake (thus to Make).
However after a short trial, I'm confused about the error status it returns. I quickly went through the…
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