Automation – Raku Advent Calendar

Day 14: Trove – yet another TAP harness

Since the early Pheix versions, I have paid a lot of attention to testing system. Initially it was a set of unit tests – I tried to cover a huge range of units like classes, methods, subroutines and conditions. In some cases I have combined unit and functional testing within one .t file, like it’sContinue reading “Day 14: Trove – yet another TAP harness”

Day 10: SparrowCI pipelines cascades of fun

Remember the young guy in the previous SparrowCI story? We have not finished with him yet … Because New Year time is coming and brings us a lot of fun, or we can say cascades of fun … So, our awesome SparrowCI pipelines plumber guy is busy with sending the gift to his nephew: sparrow.yaml:Continue reading “Day 10: SparrowCI pipelines cascades of fun”

Day 1: SparrowCI pipelines for everything

New year is a fun time when the whole family gets together by a table and eat holiday dinner. Let me introduce some fun and young member of a Raku family – a guy named SparrowCI – super flexible and fun to use CI service. To find SparrowCI lad – go to https://ci.sparrowhub.io web siteContinue reading “Day 1: SparrowCI pipelines for everything”

Day 23 – The Life of Raku Module Authoring

by Tony O’Dell Hello, world! This article is a lot about fez and how you can get started writing your first module and making it available to other users. Presuming you have rakudo and zef installed, install fez! Make sure that the last line is in your $PATH so the next set of commands all run smoothly. Now we can start writing the actualContinue reading “Day 23 – The Life of Raku Module Authoring”

Day 13 – Coloring your tools holidays

And if you’re in doubt yet whether Santa was really overloaded last year, just check out the advent calendar of 2020. That’s why back then I fetched out an old, dusty reddish-white cap, pulled it over my ears and started a small home-brew project to help my wife in her job.

Day 9 – Raku code coverage

Although I love using Raku, the fact that it is still a relatively young language means that there is a fair amount that is lacking when it comes to tooling, etc. Until recently, this included a way to calculate code coverage: how much of the code in a library is exercised (=covered) by that library’sContinue reading “Day 9 – Raku code coverage”

Day 2 – Rotation of Log files in a nutshell

Santa has a cloud-based application that helps him to deliver the gifts to the children. Once the gifts have been delivered Santa registers the delivery operation through the deliveries.log file. Just after the inspector elves review this log file comparing it with the list of children to ensure that all the children have received correctlyContinue reading “Day 2 – Rotation of Log files in a nutshell”

Day 13 – Helping the Github Action elves

As a Raku Programming Language module developer, you are sometimes surprised by the tools that you use. In this case, yours truly was surprised by a recent update of the excellent App::Mi6 tool by Shoichi Kaji. After an upgrade, it started adding a .github/workflows/test.yml file to new distributions. And this in turn caused Github to test the distribution after each commit using GithubContinue reading “Day 13 – Helping the Github Action elves”

Day 7: Mixing Bash and Raku Using Sparrow

Sparrow is a Raku automation framework which could be easily integrated with many other programming languages. So if you come from no knowledge of the Raku language – you’re welcome. In this post I’ll show you have one can effectively mix Bash scripts and Raku language using Sparrow. The idea of Sparrow – to chooseContinue reading “Day 7: Mixing Bash and Raku Using Sparrow”