GemMetadata

Description

GemMetadata is a Ruby library that allows to filter and access gems by custom metadata keys that their specifications contain.

Features / Problems

This project tries to conform to:

Additional facts:

Written purely in Ruby.
Documented with Cucumber.
Automatically testable through Cucumber and RSpec.
Intended to be used with Ruby 2.3.0 or higher.
Cryptographically signed git tags.

Requirements

Ruby 2.3.0 or higher

Installation

On *nix systems you may need to prefix the command with sudo to get root privileges.

Gem

gem install gem_metadata

Automated testing

Go into the root directory of the installed gem and run the following command to fetch all development dependencies:

bundle

Afterwards start the test runner:

rake test

If something goes wrong you should be notified through failing examples.

Usage

This documentation defines the public interface of the software. The version number of the software tracks changes to this public interface as described in Semantic Versioning. Do not use elements that are marked as private. These elements are not guaranteed to exist in otherwise compatible future versions. Should you really need some parts that are currently marked as private, please contact us. We might be able to expose them as public interface for your convenience.

This is still experimental software, even the public interface may change substantially in future releases.

Ruby interface

Loading

In most cases you want to load the code by using the following command:

require 'gem_metadata'

In a bundler Gemfile you should use the following:

gem 'gem_metadata'

Namespace

This project is contained within a namespace to avoid name collisions with other code. If you do not want to specifiy the namespace explicitly you can include it into the current scope by executing the following statement:

include GodObject::GemMetadata

Development

Bug reports and feature requests

Please use the issue tracker on github.com to let me know about errors or ideas for improvement of this software.

Source code

Distribution

This software is developed in the source code management system Git. There are several synchronized mirror repositories available:

GitHub (located in California, USA)

URI: https://github.com/godobject/gem_metadata.git
GitLab (located in Illinois, USA)

URI: https://gitlab.com/godobject/gem_metadata.git
BitBucket (located in California, USA)

URI: https://bitbucket.org/godobject/gem_metadata.git
Pikacode (located in France)

URI: https://pikacode.com/godobject/gem_metadata.git

You can get the latest source code with the following command, while exchanging the placeholder for one of the mirror URIs:

git clone MIRROR_URI

Tags and cryptographic verification

The final commit before each released gem version will be marked by a tag named like the version with a prefixed lower-case "v". Every tag will be signed by Alexander E. Fischer's OpenPGP public key which enables you to verify your copy of the code cryptographically.

Add the key to your GnuPG keyring by the following command:

gpg --import aef-openpgp.asc

This command will tell you if your code is of integrity and authentic:

git tag --verify [TAG NAME]

Building gems

To package your state of the source code into a gem package use the following command:

rake build

The gem will be generated according to the .gemspec file in the project root directory and will be placed into the pkg/ directory.

Contribution

Help on making this software better is always very appreciated. If you want your changes to be included in the official release, please clone the project on github.com, create a named branch to commit, push your changes into it and send a pull request afterwards.

Please make sure to write tests for your changes so that no one else will break them when changing other things. Also notice that an inclusion of your changes cannot be guaranteed before reviewing them.

The following people were involved in development:

Alexander E. Fischer [email protected]

License

This file is part of GemMetadata.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.