Vendorer

• documented dependencies
• automatic updates
• no unwanted/accidental updates

Install

Install curl and git, then:

sudo gem install vendorer

Usage

Add a Vendorfile to your project root:

file 'public/javascripts/jquery.min.js', 'http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js'
folder 'vendor/plugins/parallel_tests', 'https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests.git'

# execute a block after updates
file 'public/javascripts/jquery.js', 'http://code.jquery.com/jquery.js' do |path|
  puts "Do something useful with #{path}"
  rewrite(path){|content| content.gsub(/\r\n/,\n).gsub(/\t/,'  ') }
end

# checkout a specific :ref/:tag/:branch
folder 'vendor/plugins/parallel_tests', 'https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests.git', :tag => 'v0.6.10'

# DRY folders
folder 'public/javascripts' do
  file 'jquery.js', 'http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js'
end

Call vendorer

If you added something new: vendorer

Update all dependencies: vendorer update

Update one dependencies: vendorer update public/javascripts/jquery.min.js

Update everything in a folder: vendorer update public/javascripts

TODO

• nice error message when no Vendorfile was found

Author

Michael Grosser
michael@grosser.it
License: MIT