acgt(1)

NAME

acgt - Generate using templates

SYNOPSIS

acgt [-h | --help] [-e] [-o path ] <template> [name:value]*

DESCRIPTION

<template>
    Name of the template to be used as a generator.

-e
    Opens the template in $EDITOR for edition.

-o
    Path to write generated content. If omitted writes to
    STDOUT.

[name:value]*
    Several variable replacements. If a name is used more than
    once then the variable is converted to an array of values.

    See section on default values.

-h, --help
    Display this help message.

TEMPLATES STORAGE

Templates are searched in ./.acgt and ~/.acgt

Templates are written using Mote, and should end in .mote
extension.

EXAMPLE USAGE

Given a template ~/.acgt/gemspec.mote with the following contents:

  # encoding: utf-8

  Gem::Specification.new do |s|
    s.name        = "{{ name }}"
    s.version     = "{{ version }}"
    s.summary     = "{{ description }}"
    s.description = "{{ description }}"
    s.authors     = {{ authors.inspect }}
    s.email       = {{ email.inspect }}
    s.homepage    = "{{ homepage }}"
    s.files       = `git ls-files 2> /dev/null`.split("\n")
  end

we can issue the following command to generate:

  acgt gemspec name:acgt version:0.0.1 \
    description:"DNA for simple generators" \
    authors:"Leandro López" email:"inkel.ar@gmail.com" \
    homepage:"http://inkel.github.com/acgt" \
    authors: email:

generates the following output:

  # encoding: utf-8

  Gem::Specification.new do |s|
    s.name        = "acgt"
    s.version     = "0.0.1"
    s.summary     = "DNA for simple generators"
    s.description = "DNA for simple generators"
    s.authors     = ["Leandro Lopez"]
    s.email       = ["inkel.ar@gmail.com"]
    s.homepage    = "http://inkel.github.com/acgt"
    s.files       = `git ls-files 2> /dev/null`.split("\n")
  end

In this example we've used empty authors and email vars at the
end to convert it to an array.