YAMLir

YAMLir - is a simple library for generating folders structure in YAML format. For example:

books
├── architecture
│   └── event-driven
│       ├── event_driven_programming.pdf
│       ├── eventmachine_introduction_10.pdf
│       └── eventmachine_presentation.pdf
├── rails
│   └── Rails.3.in.Action.pdf
└── ruby
    ├── Design Patterns in Ruby.pdf
    └── RubyMethodLookupFlow.pdf

And the same structure with YAMLir:

---
books:
  architecture:
    event-driven:
      event_driven_programming.pdf: 
      eventmachine_introduction_10.pdf: 
      eventmachine_presentation.pdf: 
  rails:
    Rails.3.in.Action.pdf: 
  ruby:
    Design Patterns in Ruby.pdf: 
    RubyMethodLookupFlow.pdf: 

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'yamlir'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install yamlir

YAMLir.generate

This code will create yamlir.yml file in the current directory with the recursive structure of it.

It's possible to change some things.

To change glob pattern:

YAMLir.generate glob: "{app/{models},lib}/**/*"

For custom output file name (default is yamlir.yml):

YAMLir.generate file: "result.yml"

For change output directory path (missing directories will be created):

YAMLir.generate path: "/tmp/structure"

YAMLir can be augmented by custom modes.

Originally this gem was conceived like a tool for generating a list of rails application files for subsequent marks those of them that have been tested and start the corresponding test suites. That's why YAMLir includes RailsTestCover mode which generates rails app directory structure and puts the result file (named cover.yml) in the test or spec folder. Later this idea was realized in a more general form with the possibility of adding custom modes.

Suppose we want to create mode that generates all mp3 files under Music directory. This is it:

# lib/yamlir/mode/mp3.rb

module YAMLir

  class Mp3 < Base

    @glob = "/home/psylone/Music/**/*.{mp3}"
    @file = "mp3.yml"
    @path = "."

  end

end

To generate YAML structure write:

YAMLir::Mp3.generate

All this work can also be done using options with YAMLir.generate method.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request