​​TODOs you cannot forget!

In the Bad Old Days™, if you had a bit of code you knew you needed to change later, you might leave yourself a code comment to remind yourself to change it. For example, here's the real world code comment that inspired this method:

class UsersController < ApiController
  # TODO: remember to delete after JS app has propagated
  def show
    redirect_to root_path
  end
end

This was bad. The comment did nothing to remind myself or anyone else to actually delete the code. Because no one was working on this part of the system for a while, the continued existence of the redirect eventually resulted in an actual support incident (long story).

To use it, try replacing one of your TODO comments with something like this:

class UsersController < ApiController
  TodoOrDie("delete after JS app has propagated", by: "2019-02-04")
  def show
    redirect_to root_path
  end
end

Nothing will happen at all until February 4th, at which point the gem will raise an error whenever this class is loaded until someone deals with it.

#ruby: https://github.com/searls/todo_or_die
#rust: https://github.com/davidpdrsn/todo-or-die

​​Bash command line framework and CLI generator. Create feature-rich bash scripts using simple YAML configuration.

Bashly is a command line application (written in Ruby) that lets you generate feature-rich bash command line tools.

Bashly lets you focus on your specific code, without worrying about command line argument parsing, usage texts, error messages and other functions that are usually handled by a framework in any other programming language.

https://github.com/DannyBen/bashly

#ruby #shell

​​KDL is a document language with xml-like semantics that looks like you're invoking a bunch of CLI commands! It's meant to be used both as a serialization format and a configuration language, much like JSON, YAML, or XML.

Features:
- Node-based, you won't have to mess with identation to make it work
- Type annotations
- Implementations in different languages: #python, #elixir, #rust, #java, #js, #ruby, #php, etc

https://kdl.dev/