Paladin

Paladin is a simple, self-contained program that automatically generates a stack scaffold and git repository for new Haskell projects. It is a fork of Yann Esposito's project, 'Holy Haskell Starter', but modified for my own specific needs.

It creates a project directory and stack project file using sane versions of the provided project name. For example, if you specify your project as "My uber awesome project" the directory (and project) will be named 'my-uber-awesome-project'.
It initializes stack for you
It provides an initial source file, 'src/Main.hs' and gives it a module name derived from your project. Following the example above, the module will be 'MyUberAwesomeProject'
It initializes a git repo for you.
It dumps a README containing a few details of your project, as well as an MIT license.
Unlike Holy, which is a cabal package, Paladin's templates are built into the executable and thus only the executable is needed to generate the scaffolding. At this point, the scaffolding is not customizable.

Paladin is based on Yann Esposito's 'Holy-Haskell-Starter', which is here:

http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Holy-Haskell-Starter/

With only customizations because my needs are different (and admittedly, much simpler!). It doesn't have any testing frameworks set up, and unlike holy, it isn't multithreaded.

Example of use:

➜  Haskell  paladin


          /*
         />
       @/<    --==:: PALADIN ::==--
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       @\<
         \>
          \*

Creating project structure...
What is your project name? My Project
Checking my-project
What is your name? (Ysgard)
What is your email? (ysgard@gmail.com)
What is your github account? ("ysgard")
What is your project in less than a dozen words? This is a test
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/juytven/Dropbox/Haskell/my-project/.git/
Writing default config file to: /Users/juytven/Dropbox/Haskell/my-project/stack.yaml
Basing on cabal files:
- /Users/juytven/Dropbox/Haskell/my-project/my-project.cabal

Checking against build plan lts-3.12
Selected resolver: lts-3.12
Wrote project config to: /Users/juytven/Dropbox/Haskell/my-project/stack.yaml
my-project-0.1.0.0: configure
Configuring my-project-0.1.0.0...
my-project-0.1.0.0: build
Preprocessing executable 'my-project' for my-project-0.1.0.0...
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( src/Main.hs, .stack-work/dist/x86_64-osx/Cabal-1.22.4.0/build/my-project/my-project-tmp/Main.o )
Linking .stack-work/dist/x86_64-osx/Cabal-1.22.4.0/build/my-project/my-project ...
my-project-0.1.0.0: install
Installing executable(s) in
/Users/juytven/Dropbox/Haskell/my-project/.stack-work/install/x86_64-osx/lts-3.12/7.10.2/bin
You fight with the strength of many men, sir Knight...
--==:: Done! ::==--
➜  Haskell

Copyright: (c) Jan Van Uytven, 2015 License: MIT Maintainer : ysgard@gmail.com Stability: experimental Portability: POSIX

ysgard/paladin

Paladin