make your own tools

MAKEYOUR OWN

TOOLS

ChristopherCotton.com @_cotton 2013-03-07

Nashville Ruby on Rails Meetup

Why?

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Why?

Code Easier than Manual

Why?

Transferof Knowledge

What?

Simple Lines of Ruby

Command Line Tools

Simple Webapps

Apply lots of Regex, Regex, Regex

HOW?DOES IT WORK?

NOT PRETTYHOW?

I BUILT WHAT? HOW?

EXAMPLES

build.rbAndroid Building

OptionParser.new do |o| o.on('-d', '--deploy [DIR]', 'Deploy to HST, can pass in directory') { |dir| $deploy_dir = dir || "#{ENV['HOME']}/Hst/Dropbox" o.on('-r', '--release KEYSTORE', 'Keystore for the relase build') { |key| $keystore = key } o.on('-h', 'Print out help') { puts o; exit } o.parse!end

ensure_local_properies(File.join(buildtarget_dir, "facebook"), android_sdk_location)

# modify the AndroidManifest.xmlReplacement.file(File.join(buildtarget_dir, "AndroidManifest.xml")) do |rp| rp.buffer.gsub!(/package="#{package_prefix}.#{old_package}"/, "package=\"#{package_prefix}.#{package}\"")end

copy_assets.rbImage Asset Copying

rsync to copy assets

scale for non-retina versions

create .h/.m Object C for constants

File.open(File.join(root_dir, "Primer", "AssetConstants.h"),'w') do |file| file.puts "// Do not edit this file, it is auto generated by #{File.basename(__FILE__)}" file.puts "" image_files.each do |image| file.puts "FOUNDATION_EXPORT NSString *const kAsset_#{File.basename(image, File.extname(image))};" endend

Mini Server

translation helper

def trans2(eng, language) File.open("otherresources/#{ARGV[0]}_trans2.txt", "w") do |o| eng.each_with_index.select do |line, index| if line =~ /<key>(.+)<\/key>/ o.puts("") o.puts("Category\t#{unquote($1)}") end

if line =~ /<string>(.+)<\/string>/ o.print("\t#{unquote($1)}") language[index] =~ /<string>(!?)(.+)<\/string>/ o.puts("\t#{unquote($2)}\t#{$1}") end end endend

check_assets.rb

assets = {}total_dirs = 0

Dir.glob(File.join(dropbox, "*")).each do |root_dir|! next unless File.directory?(root_dir)! total_dirs += 1! dir_name = File.basename(root_dir)! Dir.glob(File.join(root_dir, "*")).each do |file|! ! name = File.basename(file)! ! assets[name] = (assets[name] || []).push(dir_name) ! !! end!end

assets.each do |key,value|!! puts "#{key} = #{value.inspect}" unless total_dirs == value.lengthend

Image Extraction, Composition

Spaceward Ho!

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Open Source

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