Whiz is a tool I am working on for personal use at this time.
Whiz is a boilerplate generation tool. It gives you a simple binary to manage your templates, and to generate those templates into code.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'whiz'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install whiz
Once installed, whiz can be used via the included whiz binary. Try running
whiz
You should see the help contents.
In Whiz, your templates are called pages. Pages are organized into tomes. Tomes are essentially just "groups", or more literally, folders.
To start out, let's list what tomes we have.
whiz tome list
At the current time, this will initially return that there are no tomes. Since there are no tomes, we can't really do much with Whiz.
Make a tome (or 2, 3, 4):
whiz tome use my_tome
Note that the whiz tome use command acts both as a way of switching between and creating tomes.
You can verify your tome is being used by running
whiz tome current
If you ever need to delete a tome (including its pages!),
whiz tome remove my_tome
Now that you have a tome setup, we can continue.
Lists all pages in the current tome.
You can create and edit pages like,
whiz edit my_page
This opens the file for editing in nano, at this time.
You can destroy pages like,
whiz destroy my_page
You can generate code using the generate command.
The first argument is the page name, and the second is the path to the file you'd like to write.
Any additional arguments are passed as space-separated key-value pairs in the format key=value. The additional arguments passed here are used as locals in the pages. This is useful for cases where you want to plug in your own values on generation.
Here's an example,
whiz generate my_page ./my_page.rb my_var=my_value my_other_var=123
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/whiz.