boil 0.2.0

Radically simple app initialization

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Initialization of new software projects should be quick and easy. Period.

Boil’s mission is to build a centralized, pluggable and community-driven repository of project templates for various technologies, managed via single API.

These are the problems that it aims to solve:

• Wasting time on initializing new software projects from scratch

  In particular: creating a file structure, checking naming conventions, determining dependencies and completing basic metadata. No matter how many times we would initialize the project, it almost always requires documentation lookup. This time can be usefully spent on something else.

• Poor quality and lack of consistency between projects

  Most developers initiate projects in their own way without complying with generally accepted standards. Often due to lack of time, projects are initialized neglectfully, have no maintenance-friendly structure and are poorly documented.

• Burden of bootstrapping tools

  Separate app generator for Ansible, Django, Rails, etc.. Their advantage is greater flexibility and extended functionality, but it is not always what you need. Switching between one and the other may be troublesome considering the variety of APIs and different configuration options for each tool.

Installation

Use pip or easy_install:

$ pip install boil

Usage

$ boil
Usage:
    boil list
    boil search <phrase>
    boil new <plate_name> [--target-dir=<dir>]
    boil -h | --help

Options:
    --target-dir=<dir>  Target directory where project files should be
                        populated.

List all available plates:

$ boil list

Search for plates:

$ boil search <phrase>

Initialize new project from selected plate:

$ boil new <plate_name>

Examples

List all available plates:

$ boil list

Search for Python-related plates:

$ boil search python

Initialize new Python package:

$ boil new python_package

Initialize new Django app:

$ boil new django_app

Initialize new Rails app:

$ boil new rails_app

Initialize new Ruby gem:

$ boil new gem

Initialize new Bash command-line tool:

$ boil new bash_cli

Initialize new Ansible role:

$ boil new ansible_role

Initialize new plate:

$ boil new plate

Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented in the CHANGELOG.