COYOTE

An intelligent command-line tool for combining and compressing JavaScript files.

Coyote selectively concatenates your JS files, combining them into a single file with the option of running the output through the Google Closure Compiler before save. Coyote automatically observes your directories and source files for changes and will recompile and save on the fly for easy development.

Installation

$ gem install coyote

Usage

Configuration

$ cd myproject/scripts
$ coyote generate

This will create the configuration file at coyote.yaml and will find any .js files and automatically add them to the input parameter. Open coyote.yaml and modify the input and output configurations to meet your needs. Coyote will combine the input files in the order you define.

Running Coyote

$ coyote

Building without watching

$ coyote build

Input wildcards

You can wildcard your input parameters to find files.

- **/*.js # recursively find all files with the extension '.js'
- /jquery/plugins/*.js # find all .js files in the directory

Dependency discovery

If your JavaScript files depend on other files or libraries to run, you can define those dependencies so Coyote will include them in the compiled output before the files that require them.

// require /jquery/jquery.js

or simply

// require jquery

Dependencies are relative to the top level of your directory, likely where your coyote.yaml config file is located.

Options

Forced compression

$ coyote -c

or

$ coyote build -c

Plan

• Global configuration for logging
• Support for Growl notifications
• Configuration options for level of compression

License

Copyright (C) 2011 by Imulus

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.