Purr PR

Tired of formatting/writing the same PR text over and over again? Use Purr PR to create a simple formatting script!

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'purr-pr'

And then execute:

bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

gem install purr-pr

This gem using GitHub CLI tool to conveniently create PRs, so you will need to install it in order to use Purr PR.

After installing gem, create a purr.rb file in the root of your git project. This file will describe your PRs.

Now you can use purr.rb file to create your formatting script

As body is the biggest PR part there are a lot of helpers to edit it. The base format is a:

body do
  # your edits
end

First of all the use_template method will simply copy the contents of .github/pull_request_template.md to a body buffer. To use any other file as a template you can provide the path to it as an argument:

body do
  use_template
  # or use_template '.github/some_other_template.md'
end

The above code will create a PR with body that has the contents of a PR template file, but this is what GitHub do by default, so then you'll probably want to apply some edits.

For the future edits lets say that the contents of .github/pull_request_template.md is 'foo-template'

To append or prepend some content to the buffer you can use corresponding methods:

body do
  use_template
  append '-postfix'
  prepend '[STORY_NUMBER] '
end

It will create the next body: '[STORY_NUMBER] foo-template-postfix'.

To change some text in a buffer use the replace method:

body do
  use_template
  append '-postfix'
  prepend '[STORY_NUMBER] '
  replace '[STORY_NUMBER]', with: 1337
end

=> '[1337] foo-template-postfix'.

To remove some text use the delete method:

body do
  use_template
  append '-postfix'
  prepend '[STORY_NUMBER] '
  replace '[STORY_NUMBER]', with: 1337
  delete '-postfix'
end

=> '[1337] foo-template'.

You can conditionally clear the buffer with the clear method:

body do
  use_template
  clear if argv.first == '--empty'
end

The above code will create the PR with empty body if the first argument is '--empty'.

You can also open the $EDITOR and manually edit the buffer text with editor method:

body do
  use_template
  editor
end

The above config will allow you to edit your template before creating a PR. Optionally you can provide file format to use syntax highlighting (the default is :md): editor format: :html.

If you whant to ensure that your edits are correct use confirm method, it will display you current buffer and ask Y/N confirmation to continue:

body do
  use_template
  confirm
end

There are some syntax sugar and helpers to be used as the arguments of above methods:

body do
  append newline(3)     # => '\n\n\n'
  append space          # => ' '
  append current_branch # => Current git branch name
  append commits.last   # => Latest commit (for the current branch) message
  clear if argv.first == '--foo' # command line arguments are available too
end

The only argument for newline and space is their count.

To ask a Y/N question you can use ask_yn method:

body do
  ask_yn 'wanna dance? (Y/N)', confirm: -> { append 'yeeesss' }, decline: -> { append 'nope :(' }
end

The first argument is a message, and :confirm and :decline arguments are for callbacks.

To ask for a custom input use the ask method:

body do
  append(ask 'Story number: ', default: 1337)
end

It will prompt you to enter the story number and then append it to the buffer. If no input is provided the :default value will be used. To prompt for multiline input use multiline: true, it will prompt for the next line untill you input two empty lines in a row. Use newline: true to append an empty line after the input.

To read a file there is a read_file method:

body do
  append(read_file('Gemfile'))
end

The above config will append your Gemfile content to the buffer

To conditionally finish the editing and create a PR use finish:

body do
  ask_yn 'are you a duck? (Y/N)', confirm: -> { append 'quack' }, decline: -> { finish }
end

If you want to finish editing and cancel the PR creating you should use interrupt instead

For PR title you can use the same block formatting as for the body:

title do
  story_number = "[#{current_branch}]"

  append story_number
  append ' my aweasome PR: '
  append commits.last
end

Or simply do:

title 'My static PR title'

The first argument will be the initial title before editing, so:

title 'Story#' do
  append 1337
end

Will create a title 'Story#1337'

To assign someone to a PR use assignee or self_assign options:

assignee '@JohnDoe'
# or to assign yourself:
self_assign

If you want to change the default base branch use base option:

base 'develop'

To create draft PR use draft option:

draft
# or
draft true

To add PR labels use labels or label options:

labels ['bug', 'duplicate'] # to add as an array
label 'documentation' # to add a single label

The above code will add bug, duplicate and documentation labels to the PR

To add reviewers use reviewers or reviewer options:

reviewers ['@JohnDoe', '@BoJackHorseman'] # to add as an array
reviewer '@FooBar' # to add a single reviewer

The above code will add @JohnDoe, @BoJackHorseman and @FooBar as the reviewers to the PR

Works with teams as well:

reviewer 'my_organisation/code_revievers'

To disable/reenable edits from maintainer use maintainer_edit or no_maintainer_edit options:

maintainer_edit false
no_maintainer_edit # the same as above

Simply call purr and it will create a PR for you via GitHub CLI according to your configuration file. Note that you may need to log in first with gh auth login.

The inline edits is pretty simple, but pretty useless as well, so don't forget that you can use any ruby code here to format your buffer. A nice example:

title 'Story: ' do
  story_number = current_branch.gsub('/').first # e.g. '1337/do-something'

  append story_number
  append space

  if commits.count == 1
    append commits.last
  else
    append(ask 'Title: ', default: commits.last)
  end
end

body do
  story_number = current_branch.gsub('/').first

  use_template

  # Story number
  replace '<STORY NUMBER>', with: story_number

  # PR Title and details
  if commits.count == 1
    story_title = details = commits.last
  else
    story_title = ask 'Title: ', default: commits.last
    details = ask 'Details: ', default: commits.last
  end
  replace 'Story Title', with: story_title
  replace 'Details go here', with: details

  # check the PR type checkboxes
  case argv.first
  when '--feature'
    replace '- [ ] New feature', with: '- [x] New feature'
  when '--bugfix'
    replace '- [ ] Bug fix', with: '- [x] Bug fix'
  when '--docs'
    replace '- [ ] Documentation', with: '- [x] Documentation'
  end

  editor # to ensure and fix something
end

draft if argv.include?('--draft')
self_assign
reviewer '@MyFellowReviewer'
label 'bug' if argv.first == '--bugfix'

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rspec 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 rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ARtoriouSs/purr. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

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

Everyone interacting in the Purr project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.