Ruby Path

Ruby Path introduces a global Path class unifying most File, Dir, FileUtils, Pathname and IO operations with a flexible and powerful Object-Interface and still adding new useful methods and functions like mocking a whole file system for fast and reliable testing.

Installation

Add rubypath to your Gemfile, gemspec or install manually.

Usage

Using Path with file and directory methods:

base = Path '/path/to/base'
src  = base.mkpath 'project/src'
src.touch 'Rakefile'
src.mkdir('lib').mkdir('mylib').touch('version.rb')
#=> <Path '/path/to/base/project/src/lib/mylib/version.rb'

Using IO:

src.write "module Mylib\n  VERSION = '0.1.0'\nend"

src.lookup('project.yml').read
#=> "..."

Mock FS in tests

Wrap specific or just all specs in a virtual filesystem:

# spec_helper.rb

config.around(:each) do |example|
  Path::Backend.mock root: :tmp, &example
end

Supported options for :root are :tmp using the real filesystem but scoping all actions into a temporary directory similar to chroot or a custom defined path to use as "chroot" directory. This mode does not allow to stub users, home directories and some attributes.

If not :root is specified a completely virtual in-memory filesystem will be used. This backend allows to even specify available users and home directories, the current user etc.

You can then define a specific scenario in your specs:

    before do
      Path.mock do |root, backend|
        backend.cwd          = '/root'
        backend.current_user = 'test'
        backend.homes        = {'test' => '/home/test'}

        home = root.mkpath('/home/test')
        home.mkfile('src/test.txt').write 'CONTENT'
        home.mkfile('src/test.html').write '<html><head><title></title>...'
      end
    end

    it 'should mock all FS' do
      base = Path('~test').expand
      expect(base.join(%w(src test.txt)).read).to eq 'CONTENT'

      files = base.glob('**/*').select{|p| p.file? }
      expect(files.size).to eq 2
    end

See full API documentation here: http://rubydoc.info/gems/rubypath/Path

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Add specs testing SYS and MOCK file system
Commit your specs (git commit -am 'Add specs for feature')
Add our changes for SYS and MOCK file system
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request

ToDos

Add missing methods
Improve MOCK FS implementation

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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