Commandment

Commandment, noun.

1. A command or edict

2. The act of commanding

Finally, a ruby shell command runner that just does the right thing!

• Returns true on success (status code 0)
• When non-zero, raises SystemCallError with Errno set and a message
• Connects stdout to stdout and stderr to stderr
• Bonus: turns stderr red

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'commandment'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install commandment

Include (or extend) Commandment in the scope where you wish to use it, and use cmd to run shell commands.

include Commandment

cmd("echo Hello World!")

cmd accepts some options:

• output passes stdout and stderr forward to ruby (defaults to false -- no output)
• err_hl adds terminal codes to turn stderr red (defaults to true)

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/dthtvwls/commandment.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.