On contributing to Overcast

[garnold]

Hey @andrewchilds, I having a bit of trouble finding the right developer setup for contributing to Overcast. Here's how I started:

1. Fork repo, clone locally
2. Prepend /path/to/overcast/bin to my PATH

With this setup, I'm getting an error when running overcast run: #30

If skip updating my path, and run Overcast using /path/to/overcast/bin/overcast, it does pickup my local changes to the Overcast framework, however I have to include the path to my scripts, ie. ./bin/overcast run all scripts/my_script. Also, recipes do not pickup my local changes since they use the overcast from my classpath.

Finally, when creating recipes, in order for Overcast to find the scripts used by the recipe, I need to include the path to the script in the recipe, otherwise the script is not found. Here's an example: https://github.com/andrewchilds/overcast/pull/31/files#diff-b481cea93210e4348dcd2edf85e892ecR19

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[andrewchilds]

Hey @garnold, instead of messing with $PATH during development I just invoke bin/overcast blah - that way I can still quickly use or test against the npm-published version with overcast blah.

I should spell this out better in the README, and it's definitely worth renaming bin/ssh etc to avoid the collisions you're seeing. Will do. Thanks!

[garnold]

@andrewchilds Ah gotcha. That will definitely work for testing scripts, but recipes will use overcast from NPM which won't include any changes to the framework.

[mafintosh]

Running npm link will add the local clone to your path