code-rub

This repository implements a base layer, CLI, and a few plugins to automate the process described here: https://hassanhabib.com/2020/02/09/code-rub/.

The core of code-rub is agnostic to ticketing system, project philosophy, and technology. On its own, it will do nothing except keep track of which files have been assigned for a rub, but it doesn't know how to actually create tickets and assign them. It doesn't even log them to the console by default.

Quick Start

Currently, a jira plugin and an azure-devops plugin are provided. If this suits your use case, run npx code-rub init --preset {jira|azure-devops}, and then fill in the placeholder values created in code-rub.config.js.

If this doesn't suit your use case, run npx code-rub init to generate a blank configuration. There are examples of local plugins in this repo's tool folder, and the code-rub.config.js file here demonstrates how to point to them. They can be either typescript or javascript. There are future plans to add azure-devops and github issues based support, but they are not yet implemented. PRs adding them are welcome 😀

Plugins

This is where the plugins come in. A code-rub plugin can change almost everything about the flow of npx code-rub. They can provide:

• A setup function: setup
• An initial configuration, used in npx code-rub init --preset: initialConfiguration
• A method to process assignments, after they are generated: processAssignments
• A method to process the file queue, useful for filtering out file extensions or paths: processFileQueue
• A method to process the Ignore object used when generating the repository file map: processIgnore
  • This is ran before code-rub saves the file map, so it affects all configuration files. This should only be specified in the repositories base configuration (or sole configuration).
• A method to read and write the file map: readFileMap and saveFileMap respectively.
  • Only one plugin may specify these methods.

Plugins are specified by two pieces of configuration, the plugins array and the pluginConfiguration object. Plugin's are loaded based on the plugins array, and the capabilities they provide are configured through their entry in pluginConfiguration.

Plugins are loaded, and executed based on their order in the plugins array. This is especially important for functions like processFileQueue which chains the results during execution.

As an example, imagine you have plugin1 which removes typescript files but plugin2 expects them to be present. If you use plugins: [plugin1, plugin2], plugin2 would not see any of the typescript files. If you use plugins: [plugin2, plugin1], plugin2 would see them since they are not removed yet.

For an example plugin implementation, check the jira package in this repository.