Puppetry

Puppetry is currently shipped as a gem, so you just need to install it with:

$ gem install puppetry_toolbox

or, if you're using Bundler, set the following dependency line in your Gemfile:

gem 'puppetry_toolbox'

Puppetry can help you with the development of a Puppet module in many ways. Let's look at each of them.

If you're to start development of a new module, you'll find that you need to at least setup a proper directory structure. If you're going to test your Puppet code (you ARE testing your Puppet code, aren't you?), you'll also need to setup your project dependencies, test helper file, load path, etc. Since this is almost all repeatable stuff, Puppetry ships with a command to generate the scaffolding for a new module.

Let's pretend you want to start working on the my_nice_module module; then you just need to:

puppetry new my_nice_module

This will generate a my_nice_module subdirectory in the current working directory. This directory will contain everything you need to start developing your new module.

In particular, created directory will be a Git repository tracking a remote named skeleton that points to the skeleton module used to scaffold the newly created one. So, it's possible to update the current scaffolding configuration by simply issuing:

git pull skeleton master

NOTE: This could lead to conflicts if you modify any of the files tracked by the skeleton module. Normal git housekeeping applies here though.