This is a continuation of my short series (part 1) on how I setup Vim to be a little more fully featured looking at the custom shortcuts. By no means is my setup the best, but there are a few neat things I've stumbled upon and my thought is that by aggregating them here someone else might find something new to add. Or maybe someone knows a better way to do something and lets me know. So let's get started!
∣ LinuxDev Ruby task_time rtasklib
In the Ruby community the most common way to distribute software is in a packaged format cutely named gems (similar to the Python concept of Eggs). This manages dependencies and meta data much like the other packaging platforms, but with Ruby syntax in a file called '#{you_gems_name}.gemspec'. This process is completely automated through the Ruby gems, gem (installation/RubyGems.org integration), bundler (dependency management and boiler plate code), and rake (Ruby make, to streamline the process).
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∣ Ruby rtasklib LinuxDev Business and Legal
So the semester has come to a close and I've made the first 'official' release of rtasklib. Install the gem from RubyGems.org (gem install rtasklib) or install the RPM on your Fedora system if you prefer. I reached out to the TaskWarrior devs and they also are adding rtasklib to the list of available libraries on the TaskWarrior main website in the next few days, which is pretty cool.
Over the last couple of weeks the overall architecture has been in a state of flux as I have been swapping pieces in out to see what will work best. Now as I approach my original milestone for having this in a working condition things are starting to fall into place. Models for tasks and configuration are pretty much stable, initialization of the configuration is done, and validation and serialization of tasks are coming along. The main bit of work left to do is writing the controllers to hook all of the components together and will effectively make up the public interface for the library.