devutils

These are small tools to make development easier in that they provide metagems which pulls other common gems for development purposes.

To use devutils, first install the gem with

$ gem install devutils

Now that it is available, you can use it to create new projects

$ devutils init foo

This will create a directory structure in foo with a Gemfile already placed. That Gemfile will hold 4 gems, which will pull in other dependencies most need for development. If you don't want a dependency or want to use another one, you are free to, as devutils will never again touch any files.

You can modify the behaviour with the following flags

• --metrics/--no-metrics: install tools for meassuring code quality (default: true)
• --docs/--no-docs: installs yard for documentation (default: true)
• --guard/--no-guard: installs rudimentary guard support (default: true)

The dependencies of the gems are as follows

• rspec: for writing specs

• yard: to parse documentation into html files

• reek: a tool for code smell detection
• flog: creates pain reports of the code
• flay: finds duplicated code
• roodi: an object oriented code infometer
• mutant: a mutation testing tool
• simplecov: a test coverage reporting tool (needs ruby > 1.8)
• pelusa: a code analytics tool (needs rubinius)

• guard: a tool to run automatic tasks on file changes (makes testing nicer)
• guard-rspec: runs your specs automatically
• guard-bundler: runs bundler, when your Gemfile changes