Yaml Normalizer

YAML is a file format that's human-readable and very common among Ruby projects. The YAML standard is well-defined and supported by many programming languages. Ruby's default YAML parser and emitter is Psych.

Yaml Normalizer follows the notion that there is a normalized YAML file format. It re-formats YAML files in a way that the results closely match Psych's output. Yaml Normalizer ensures that the original file and the resulting file are identical regarding the resulting Hash from Psych (stable change). The primary target of this project are i18n YAML files.

Yaml Normalizer provides

Alphabetic Ordering
- to improve (human-)readability and maintainability,
- to avoid duplicate keys,
- to minimize effort when resolving merge conflicts in YAML files
Limited Line Length
- to improve (human-)readability and maintainability
Non-breaking Changes only
- to ensure changes do not impact functional parts of the application. Yaml Normalizer considers changing the order of YAML file entries as non-breaking,
- to build maximum trust in Yaml Normalizer and its generated YAML files,
- to avoid the need of manual reviews.

Yaml Normalizer can be used in frameworks like Rails, Sinatra or Cuba, but it runs stand-alone as well.

Installation

gem install yaml_normalizer

Usage

Use executable files

Yaml Normalizer provides you with two executables: yaml_normalize and yaml_check. To check and normalize ´a_yaml_file.yml´, run:

yaml_check a_yaml_file.yml
yaml_normalize a_yaml_file.yml

Print the installed version of Yaml Normalizer:

yaml_check --version

Print help messages for ´yaml_check´ and yaml_normalize:

yaml_check --help
yaml_normalize --help

Include Yaml Normalizer rake tasks

In your Gemfile, add

  gem 'yaml_normalizer', require: false

In a Rails context, you might want to only add it to :development and :test groups.

In your Rakefile, add

require 'yaml_normalizer/rake_task'
YamlNormalizer::RakeTask.new do |config|
  yamls = Dir['**/*.yml']  # TODO: Select relevant YAML files in your project.
  config.files = yamls
end

This will give you two additional rake task (rake -T)

rake yaml:check      # Check if configured YAML files are normalized
rake yaml:normalize  # Normalize configured YAML files

Development

Start developing Yaml Normalizer by installing the following dependencies:

git (version control)
Ruby (programming language)
RubyGems (package manager for Ruby)
Bundler (dependency manager for RubyGems)

Set up Yaml Normalizer

git clone git@github.com:Sage/yaml_normalizer.git
cd yaml_normalizer/
bundle install

List available rake tasks

bundle exec rake -T

rake ci                       # Continuous integration test suite (DEFAULT)
rake flog                     # Analyze for code complexity in: lib
rake inch                     # Check documentation coverage
rake mutant                   # Mutation testing to check mutation coverage of current RSpec test suite
rake rubocop                  # Run RuboCop
rake rubocop:autocorrect      # Autocorrect RuboCop offenses (only when it's safe)
rake rubocop:autocorrect_all  # Autocorrect RuboCop offenses (safe and unsafe)
rake spec                     # Run RSpec code examples
rake yard                     # Generate YARD Documentation

Generate documentation locally using Yard

bundle exec rake yard

After generating yard documentation, open generated index.html located in doc/ in your browser.

Test documentation quality using Inch

bundle exec rake inch
inch list --all

This task applies static code analysis to measure documentation quality. Inch also suggests improvements.

Run RSpec

bundle exec rake spec
rspec

RSpec is a testing framework for Ruby. Running this task executes all tests located in spec/.

Check and Correct static code metrics using Rubocop

bundle exec rake rubocop
rubocop

bundle exec rake rubocop:autocorrect
rubocop -a

bundle exec rake rubocop:autocorrect_all
rubocop -A

Rubocop is a static code analyzer that checks for code quality and style issues.

Run Flog (check complexity)

bundle exec rake flog

Flog is a static code analyzer that checks for code complexity.

Run Guard

bundle exec guard

Guard keeps track of file changes and automatically runs tests related to updated files.

Run continuous integration test suite

bundle exec rake

Running this task executes the following tasks: ´ci_spec´ ´inch´ ´ci_flog´ ´rubocop`

Test Tests using mutant (requires mutant-license)

bundle exec rake mutant

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Sage/yaml_normalizer.

Engineering Standards

We want to keep engineering standards high and use code reviews and test tools to help with that. Yaml Normalizer is designed to have no side effects, especially regarding Ruby Core and Standard Lib implementation. Also, we want to keep simplecov, rubocop, flog, inch and mutant happy. We will add more details on PRs if needed.

License

Yaml Normalizer is available as open source under the terms of the Apache-2.0 licence.

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