syntaxer

Overview

Syntaxer make possible check syntax of scripts. It may be used in standalone mode and with git repository for checking changed and added files only. It is useful for for rails team, because you need to store only file with rules, and git hook will be generated for you.

Installation

To install syntaxer run

[sudo] gem install syntaxer

Usage with rails

1) Add to Gemfile

gem "syntaxer"

2)

bundle install

3)

rake syntaxer:install

It creates config/syntaxer.rb file with common rails options, you may edit it as you wish, and .git/hooks/pre-commit script, which will run syntax checking before every commit.

Standalone usage

Example of usage:

Run syntax checking in current directory recursively

syntaxer

Run syntax checking in another directory recursively. Make sure to add ‘/’ at the end.

syntaxer -p ./developement/

Install hook to git repository in current directory

syntaxer -i -r git

Indicate custom config file

syntaxer -c config.rb

Example of syntaxer.rb file:

syntaxer do
  languages :ruby, :haml, :sass do         # type of files to be watched
    folders 'app/**/*', 'lib/**/*'               # folders to be checked
  end               
end

You can specify multiple rules, for example you want to check only ruby files in app/controllers/* and only haml in app/views/*, you can write the next in your “initializers/syntaxer.rb” file:

syntaxer do
  languages :ruby do
    folders 'app/controllers/*'
  end

  lang :haml do  # lang is an alias for languages
    f 'app/views/*' #f is an alias for folders    
  end

  #all supported types at app/**
  languages :all do
    folders 'app/**'
  end

  ignore_folders 'app/models/**' # this folders will be deleted from all languages
end

Languages available for now are: ruby, erb, haml, sass. You can extend this by your own, how to do that will be described below.

Options for usage

-c, --config          specify config file
-p, --path            path for syntax check. If this option is not specify it checks files from current directory
-r, --repo            indicate type of repository. Available git and svn at this time.
-i, --install         generates pre-commit hook and put it in .git/hooks folder. It checks syntax of languages what are indicated in options file before every commit
-q, --quite           disable information messages. Is needed when you only want to know the result: 1 or 0
-l, --loud            informate about every checked file
-W, --warnings        show warning messages
-h, --help            show help and options describe above.

Contributing to syntaxer

  • Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn’t been implemented or the bug hasn’t been fixed yet

  • Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn’t requested it and/or contributed it

  • Fork the project

  • Start a feature/bugfix branch

  • Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution

  • Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

  • Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

TODO

  • Have to fix the problem with only created repository and initial commit with GIT repository

  • Add SVN support

  • Add description on how to add new languages

Known problems

  • Git gem doesn’t work properly on the very first commit.

Author

Artyom Kramarenko (artemk) Svitla Systems Inc (www.svitla.com)

Contributors

Artem Melnikov (ignar) Svitla Systems Inc (www.svitla.com)

See LICENSE.txt for further details.