Tagrity

Automatically regenerate your tags on file changes.

$ gem install tagrity

tagrity start

That's it! It will monitor the current directory and generate tags for any files which change and are not ignored by git.

To stop watching the current directory, use

tagrity stop

To view directories being watched, use

tagrity status

When your computer is restarted, the process watching the directories will be killed. Add the following to your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.zshrc, etc.) to revive any killed processes automatically.

(tagrity revive &) &> /dev/null

To stop watching a directory that isn't the current working directory (but shows up in tagrity status), you can use:

tagrity stop --dir <path>

Where <path> is a relative or absolute path. You may be tempted to run tagrity status to get the pid and then kill it with kill <pid>. However, while this will work, tagrity revive will restart these processes (with different pids of course). tagrity stop will kill the process and stop tagrity revive from starting it up again.

To get info on what tags are being generated, you can run:

tagrity logs

For a full set of subcommands, try tagrity help.

Configuration can be done through use of a local .tagrity_config.yml file that looks like the following:

NOTE: Tagrity will also look for a global config file at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tagrity/tagrity_config.yml (usually this will be ~/.config/tagrity/tagrity_config.yml). This will be overriden by a local config file.

NOTE: Tagrity needs to be restarted for configuration changes to take effect.

Sample tagrity_config.yml

# which command to use to generate tags for a specific file extension
# overrides default_command
# tag generation commands must support --append, -f, -L
# NOTE: Exuberant-ctags does NOT satisfy this requirement, instead use Universal-ctags
#
# Default: empty
extension_commands:
  rb: ripper-tags
  c: ctags
  go: gotags

# default command to generate tags
# command must support --append, -f, -L
#
# Default: ctags
default_command: ctags

# filename (relative to pwd) to generate tags into
#
# Default: tags
tagf: tags

# list of extensions to exclusively generate tags for
# this will take precendence over extensions_blacklist if it is non-empty
#
# Default: []
extensions_whitelist: [rb, c, h, js]

# list of extensions to not generate tags for
# this can will be ignored if extensions_whitelist is non-empty
#
# Default: []
extensions_blacklist: [erb, html, txt]

# which paths (relative to pwd) to ignore
# this is usually not needed since tagrity doesn't index files ignored by git
#
# Default: []
excluded_paths: [vendor, node_modules]

Commands:
  tagrity help [COMMAND]  # Describe available commands or one specific command
  tagrity logs            # Print the logs for pwd
  tagrity revive          # Restart any tagrity processes that died
  tagrity start           # Start watching pwd
  tagrity status          # List running tagrity processes and the directories being watched
  tagrity stop            # Stop watching a directory (default to pwd)
  tagrity version         # print tagrity version

Usage:
  tagrity start

Options:
  [--fg], [--no-fg]        # keep the tagrity process running in the foreground
  [--fresh], [--no-fresh]  # index the whole codebase before watching the file system. This will be slow if the codebase is large.

Start watching pwd

Usage:
  tagrity stop

Options:
  [--dir=DIR]  # directory to stop watching.
               # Default: /Users/rethy/ruby/tagrity

Stop watching a directory (default to pwd)

Usage:
  tagrity status

List running tagrity processes and the directories being watched

Usage:
  tagrity logs

Options:
  [-n=N]                   # the number of log lines to print
                           # Default: 10
  [--debug], [--no-debug]  # if debug logs be printed too

Print the logs for pwd

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/RRethy/tagrity. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the Tagrity project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.