Rake task to help frame a plugin

[mbbroberg]

After someone forks this repository, it would be very helpful to have a simple rake task that ensures that the user can quickly frame out a new plugin simply by running something like rake new sendgrid and it creates ../sensu-plugins-sendgrid plugin framed out.

I'd like to keep discussing the exactly syntax and then ask for some help from others to complete it. cc @majormoses

[majormoses]

I see a couple of steps that would make life easier creating plugins and I believe they could be solved with a couple relatively straightforward tasks:

• copy repo, includes all dotfiles except .git (exact match as we have .github which should be copied. Other exception I can think of is README-skel.md
• rename and replace all occurrences of skel, Skel, etc to the appropriate values
• copy a template changelog to make it clear that the changelog starts fresh when copied rather than the changelog of the skel itself
• create issue for maintainer to add labels and invite user to maintain the repo
• create issue for maintainer to add rubygems/travis setup

[lagartoflojo]

Another question is how to keep already-created plugins up to date with the skeleton :)

[majormoses]

Another question is how to keep already-created plugins up to date with the skeleton :)

Ya thats a difficult thing to do I have mostly been either updating things as I see them or automating search/replacement and creating pull requests.

[majormoses]

One thing we could do is make the skel a collection of erb templates which would I think make it easier. Wow been a while since I have looked at this.