#242 Thor

Nov 29, 2010 | 8 minutes | Tools

Thor is an alternative to Rake. It has better support for command line arguments and provides a way to add global scripts.

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          bash
                
        thor help
thor list
thor setup:config
thor setup:config --force
thor setup:config private.yml --force
thor install lib/tasks/setup.thor
thor setup:populate
thor setup:populate --count 5
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
      
thor help
thor list
thor setup:config
thor setup:config --force
thor setup:config private.yml --force
thor install lib/tasks/setup.thor
thor setup:populate
thor setup:populate --count 5

          ruby
                
        class Setup < Thor
  desc "config [NAME]", "copy configuration files"
  method_options :force => :boolean
  def config(name = "*")
    Dir["config/examples/#{name}"].each do |source|
      destination = "config/#{File.basename(source)}"
      FileUtils.rm(destination) if options[:force] && File.exist?(destination)
      if File.exist?(destination)
        puts "Skipping #{destination} because it already exists"
      else
        puts "Generating #{destination}"
        FileUtils.cp(source, destination)
      end
    end
  end
  
  desc "populate", "generate records"
  method_options :count => 10
  def populate
    require File.expand_path('config/environment.rb')
    options[:count].times do |num|
      puts "Generating article #{num}"
      Article.create!(:name => "Article #{num}")
    end
  end
end
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
      
class Setup < Thor
  desc "config [NAME]", "copy configuration files"
  method_options :force => :boolean
  def config(name = "*")
    Dir["config/examples/#{name}"].each do |source|
      destination = "config/#{File.basename(source)}"
      FileUtils.rm(destination) if options[:force] && File.exist?(destination)
      if File.exist?(destination)
        puts "Skipping #{destination} because it already exists"
      else
        puts "Generating #{destination}"
        FileUtils.cp(source, destination)
      end
    end
  end
  
  desc "populate", "generate records"
  method_options :count => 10
  def populate
    require File.expand_path('config/environment.rb')
    options[:count].times do |num|
      puts "Generating article #{num}"
      Article.create!(:name => "Article #{num}")
    end
  end
end