Open For Editing (ofe)

CLI Gem which opens specified files (ofe.json) for editing in your text editor

Example:

# Open the 'default' group in your editor
# For example, this may execute: vim Gemfile Rakefile README.md app/models/* [...]
$ ofe 

Installation

From Rubygems

$ gem install ofe

Manually

git clone https://github.com/eriknomitch/ofe.git
cd ofe
bundle install
rake

Configuration

Add an ofe.json configuration file in any directory.

The primary keys define "groups" which you can pass to ofe (see Usage).

Within groups, you can define keys:

• "extensions": Recursively searches your entire current directory for files with that extension to edit.
• "files": Either relative paths to files you want to open for editing or paths with globbing.
• "exclusions": Exclude any files starting with the exclusion paths specified.
• "first_file": Ensure that this file path is the first argument to your editor.
• "topology": Defines a topology to topologically sort the found files (i.e., which files should be passed after which other files)
• "command": Executes a shell command and adds all files (delimited by newlines) from its output to the open list. Be careful with this one.

Example ofe.json:

{
  "default": {
    "extensions": [".rb", ".gem", ".md"],
    "files":      ["Rakefile", "Gemfile", "bin/*", "ofe.json", ".gitignore"],
    "exclusions": ["test/", "spec/"],
    "first_file": "Gemfile",
    "topology":   {"baz.rb": ["foo.rb, "foo.rb"]}
  },
  "docs": {
    "extensions": [".md"]
  },
  "git": {
    "files": [".git/config", ".gitignore"]
  },
  "diff": {
    "command": "git diff --name-only"
  },
  "test": {
    "files": ["test/**/*.rb", "spec/**/*.rb"]
  }
}

Match all files recursively in a directory and its subdirectories with:

{
  "my_group": {
    "files": ["my_directory/**/**"]
  }
}

Match all files with an extension recursively in a directory and its subdirectories with:

{
  "my_group": {
    "files": ["my_directory/**/*.ext"]
  }
}

Usage

# Opens the 'default' group in your editor (e.g., executes: vim Gemfile README.md [...])
$ ofe

# Opens the 'docs' group in your editor
$ ofe docs

# Lists all groups configured in ofe.json
$ ofe --groups|-g

# Parses and pretty prints ofe.json
$ ofe --list|-l

# Parses and pretty prints group from ofe.json
$ ofe --list|-l git

# Writes an example config file to ./ofe.json
$ ofe --mk-example-config|-m

# Opens ofe.json in your editor
$ ofe --self|-s

Credits

Erik Nomitch: erik@nomitch.com