cheat --execute

on August 01, 2008 @ 03:21 PM

I hate having to continuously lookup the steps to install things every few weeks. The cheat gem works for most things to find installation instructions relatively quickly, but sometimes I just want to install something, not necessarily have to search through lines of example usage to find the installation instructions. Enter two new options for the cheat gem: dash x and dash dash execute. It’s simple. For example:

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cd /some/dummy/rails/project
cheat install_rspec_rails -x

  # This is to install the latest rspec/rspec-rails into 
  # a rails project. 
  script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec.git
  script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails.git
  script/generate rspec

Would you like to execute the above sheet? (Y/N)

I’ve sent defunkt a pull request on github, I hope it includes the change. Until then, the change is only on my fork: http://github.com/zdennis/cheat/tree/master

To install do the following:

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git clone git://github.com/zdennis/cheat.git
cd cheat
rake package
sudo gem install pkg/cheat-1.2.2.gem

Enjoy,