merb-more

[5:27pm] dysinger: The rake files in merb-more are messy. Is there a plan to clean them up ?

[5:27pm] dysinger: rake bundle has been failing for a week or more - since I started trying it.

[5:30pm] ivey: dysinger: yes they are, and yes there is

[5:30pm] dysinger: ok I was just about to put up a lighthouse ticket

[5:31pm] dysinger: because there aren't any open ones on that subject afaik

[5:32pm] dysinger: it would seem to me that ALL those rakefiles could be refactored into a common include

[5:32pm] dysinger: they are almost all identical - except they were are generated and then hand edited each by a different developer

[5:33pm] ivey: indeed

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[5:33pm] ivey: dysinger: feel like cleaning it up?

[5:33pm] ivey: i'd LOVE to see a patch for it...we really need 'rake specs' at the top level of -more to work

[5:33pm] dysinger: sure let me poke around and see if there are any related tickets.

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[5:37pm] dysinger: So ivey - I don't want to do this solo and then have the ticket scrutinized that it isn't in alignment with the project

[5:37pm] dysinger: Let's talk about it for a second

[5:37pm] ivey: sure

[5:37pm] dysinger: I was envisioning a skeletal top level rakefile

[5:37pm] ivey: although we don't do that very often

[5:37pm] dysinger: and then small little rake files in each sub-project

[5:38pm] dysinger: with an include to pull in a common rakefile

[5:38pm] ivey: here are what i see as Important Things:

[5:38pm] dysinger: so that you can reuse

[5:38pm] ivey: 1) merb-more 'rake specs' runs all the specs

[5:38pm] dysinger: and it's uniform

[5:38pm] ivey: 2) each sub-project 'rake specs' runs that projects' specs

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[5:38pm] ivey: 3) same for 'rake package' eventually

[5:38pm] dysinger: Does it have to work so that you can have merb-freezer by itself for example ?

[5:39pm] dysinger: without it being as a sub-folder ?

[5:39pm] ivey: yeah i want to be able to cd to merb-freezer and run rake specs

[5:39pm] dysinger: no I mean will it ever be the case that someone just has a tar for example of merb-freezer and nothing else

[5:39pm] ivey: hmm

[5:40pm] dysinger: or can I count on it always being in the git project format that it's in now.

[5:40pm] dysinger: I was thinking of including a common rake file

[5:40pm] ivey: does anyone ever run specs out of installed gem dirs?

[5:40pm] dysinger: but that doesn't work so well if you just want to walk off with one sub-folder

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[5:40pm] dysinger: I don't

[5:40pm] dysinger: I don't even see the point of including specs in the installed gem

[5:40pm] ivey: I'm fine with "if you want to pull merb-* out of merb-more and run it separately, you also have to pull file X from -more itself"

[5:41pm] ivey: so maybe the sub-Rakefiles can check for that file at . and ..

[5:41pm] dysinger: it would just be the top level rake common file

[5:41pm] ivey: so they can just copy the common file into -freezer and it works

[5:41pm] dysinger: ok

[5:41pm] ivey: but in the non-stupid case it uses the shared one

[5:42pm] dysinger: ok so I'll make up a ticket

[5:42pm] dysinger: and paste in these notes ^

[5:43pm] ivey: cool