Faith

This is a work in progress. Tasks can't be run from a CLI yet, and many features are unimplemented.

Faith is an powerful and extremely versatile task runner. Using a lovely Ruby DSL, you can:

• Define named tasks
  • Can be invoked with arguments and options*
• Assign dependencies between tasks
• Group tasks together into sensible and organised namespaces
• Build sequences of tasks which run in order
  • Can either exit or continue if one task fails*
• Create parallel groups of tasks*
• Add mixins, which wrap tasks to enhance their environment by running before and after tasks

* - Not yet implemented

DSL Example

# A very simple, not-real-world example

# Create two mixins, which can provide `number` to a task
mixin 'a' do
    before do
        provide number: 5
    end
end

mixin 'b' do
    before do
        provide number: 4
    end
end

# Now, create an executable task which uses those provided values
task 'example', mixins: ['a', 'b'] do
    puts mixins['a'].number * mixins['b'].number # => 20
end

Use Case

Faith should make a great starting point for building your own bespoke testing framework, or if you feel like you're outgrowing Rake.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'faith'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install faith

Name

Named after Faith Connors, a runner from the Mirror's Edge video games.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/AaronC81/faith.

License

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