Chid

Chid is an assistant to help your day-to-day life. It can be used in some installations, news, configurations, workstations and more.

Installation

To get started follow those steps:

1- Clone the project:

git clone https://github.com/rachidcalazans/chid.git

2- Install the dependcy if you do not have already installed:

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install

3- Inside the folder project run:

$ rake init

Note: Chid will automatically install a .chid.config file and create an alias on your .bashrc or .zshrc (if you have zsh installed). After the installation Chid will give you the bash command to reload your sources file.

Upgrading

To update the chid is easy.

$ chid update

Usage

Chid is an app based on Rake Tasks. You are available to use all features as rake tasks or run as a terminal app:

Note: All tasks are available for osx and linux. The chid will automatically knows how run the specific comand for each plataform.

All features are listed bellow:

Install chid configuration

  • $ chid init - Will install all necessary confiuration.

Start the app

  • $ chid - To start the chid terminal app

Note: To run the commands listed bellow you must started the chid app.

Help

  • help or :h - Show all tasks available

Quit

  • :q or quit or bye or exit - Will finish the chid app

Currency

  • current - Get the current conversion for USD to BRL amount
  • currency list - Show all types of currencies available to convert
  • convert [amount] [type_from] to [type_to] - You can convert an amount between types. Eg.: convert 10 USD to BRL

Install apps

Note: All install tasks, chid will always ask if you really want to install it. Also will install the dependencies if necessary.

  • install dotfiles - Install YADR Dotfiles
  • install node - Install Node
  • install postgres - Install Postgres
  • install rvm - Install stable RVM version

Run

  • run postgres - Run the postgresql if you already have installed.

Update

  • update os or update - Will update the linux os. For osx is not available

News

  • news - Will show all news from some sites. BBC news, CNN, Espn, Mashable, Google, Techcrunch, Reddit

Translate

  • t [TEXT] or t [TEXT] [FROM] to [TO] - Will translate the given text. By default the from is en and to is pt

Example: t hello world or t hello world en to pt

Search on StackOverflow

A simple search in StackOverflow

  • stack [TEXT_TO_SEACH] - Will search on StackOverflow all results for that text.

  • stack - Will ask what you want to search on StackOverflow all results for that

stack sample

Search GitHub repositories

A simple search for repository name

  • github [SEARCH_EXPRESSION] - Show results for expression paginated every 10

Workstations

Workstations are a way to make it easy for you to open a set of applications by simple commands.

The set of configurations are saved on .chid.config file.

Note: All commands bellow is possible run with prefix: workstation [command] or work [command].

  • work list - List all workstations
  • work create - Create a new workstation. Chid will ask for a name to set the new workstation and after that will list all applications available on your system to chosse witch one you wanna add
  • work destroy - Chid will ask which workstation you want to destroy and chid will destroy it after choose
  • work open - Open a specific workstation. Chid will list all workstations to choose one of them to open all applications
  • work open [workstation_name] - Open a specific workstation without choose from a list. Eg.: work open base - It will open all applications inside the base workstation

Note: For linux users the work create is not working. You need create manually (editing the .chid.config file). Will be explained how on How configure and customize your workstations topic

Chid configuration

  • chid config or config - Open the .chid.config file

How configure and customize your workstations

The chid configuration file is installed on ~/.chid.config. You can open: $ chid chid_config

Chid config is a YAML file.

You can create the workstations just adding on :workstations: key.

The initial chid config file will be like:

---
:chid:
  :chid_path: "[CHID_FOLDER_PROJECT_PATH]"
  :workstations: {}

Base configuration

To add a new workstation you can edit like:

---
:chid:
  :chid_path: "[CHID_FOLDER_PROJECT_PATH]"
  :workstations:
    :base: # Workstation Name
    - iTerm #Application Name
    - Safari
    - Slack

After edit you can open the base workstation running:

  • $ chid workstation:open['base'] - As rake task
  • work open base - With the chid app running

Advance configuration

Is possible you can customize some options with each Application when will open it

  • Open the Terminal in a specific folder
  • Open a Safari with a specific URL
  • Any options which your application can use
---
:chid:
  :chid_path: "[CHID_FOLDER_PROJECT_PATH]"
  :workstations:
    :base: # Workstation Name
    - iTerm ~/Workspaces/rake-workspace/chid/ & rake tmux_config  # Will open 
    # in a specific folder and will run some Rake Task
    - Safari https://github.com/rachidcalazans/chid # Will open the Safari 
    # in a specific URL