RUMAKE

rumake is a task runner written in Rust that tries to stay close to the shell. It doesn't attend to be a drop-in replacement for make.

Principal features are:

• not-coupled to a runtime.
• simple syntax (YAML).
• can pass down arguments to the instruction.
• tasks & variables dependency.
• check for infinite recursive declaration.

Installation

cargo install --git https://github.com/letaron/rumake.git

Quick start

This tool make use of tasks & variables. You run tasks that can use variales.

Let's say you have this configuration:

# rumake.yaml
dkcr: docker-compose run --rm

hello: "echo 🐄: hello $from !"
me:
  - "@hello"
  - echo "I\'m $USER and time is $(date)"
$from: world

You can use it like this:

rumake dkcr node bash # docker-compose run --rm node bash

rumake me
# 🐄: hello world !
# I'm ... and time is ...

Usage

Calling rumake is pretty straight-forward:

rumake TASK [ARGS]

ARGS will be used in task's instruction.

Task referencing

You can reference a taks by @-name.

task1: echo "baz"
task2:
  - echo "foo"
  - "@task1"

usage

rumake task2
# foo
# baz

Passing arguments

You can pass down arguments from the CLI to the task's instruction and choose wich instruction will receive it, and where. With arguments forwarding, no need to repeat a target for a small difference, you can factorise tasks.

Default behavior

If the task consist of a simple intruction, CLI args are appened to the end.

With this configuration:

dkcr: docker-compose run --rm

will be used like that:

rumake dkcr node bash # will run docker-compose run --rm node bash

When the task has multiple instructions, you need to place the arguments. It allow more use cases, please see below.

Placing arguments

rumake replace the special arguments $RUMAKE_ARGS by CLI args.

With this configuration:

shell: docker-compose run $RUMAKE_ARGS bash

will be used like that:

rumake dkcr shell node # will run docker-compose run node bash

And when referencing, it's the same principle:

pizza: echo \"Let\'s go for a pizza with $RUMAKE_ARGS 🍕\"
pizza_super: "@pizza super $RUMAKE_ARGS"
pizza_extra:
  - ["echo hmmm...", "echo I love $RUMAKE_ARGS"]
  - "@pizza_super extra $RUMAKE_ARGS !"

You use it like this

rumake pizza cheese # will output: Let's go for a pizza with cheese ! 🍕

rumake pizza_extra cheese # will output:
# hmmm...
# I love cheese
# Let's go for a pizza with super extra cheese ! 🍕

When referencing a task, the arguments passed to the task are the ones declared in the referencing task, like a new direct call, not the "global" ones.

Escaping

Notice the quote escaping. If an instruction need a quote, it needs to get out from YAML first.

task: echo It\\\'s a test # after YAML parsing: It\'s a test
# or
task: echo \"It\'s a test\" # after YAML parsing: "It's a test"

# will echo: It's a test

The each task instruction is lauched by sh -e -u -c ....

Configuration

See a full working configuration here.

Config file used

Priority for loading (no merging is done):

1. if rumake.yaml exists in the working directory, it will be used.
2. if rumake.yaml.dist exists in the working directory, it will be used.

Task definition

• Task name is any value not begining with a $.
• Task are made of instruction(s).
• Instructionss are either an array of string or a string.
• In case of instruction is only a string, CLI args are forwarded.
• A task can reference another task by prefixing it's name with @.

task1: instruction1

task2:
  - instruction1
  - instruction2 $foo
  - ["@task1 with param", "instruction3"]
  - for file in $(ls); do
      echo $file;
    done
  # ...

Variable definition

• Variables name starts with $.
• Variable can reference other variable with their name.

$foo: foo
$bar: bar baz${foo}51 # computes to "bar bazfoo51"

Shell completion

Shell completion is supported for Bash, move fixtures/rumake-completion.bash to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bash_completion or /etc/bash_completion.d/, ie.

cp fixtures/rumake-completion.bash ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-/etc/bash_completion.d/}/rumake

Why ?

We needed a tool close to the OS and not needing a specific language (Python, PHP, Node, ...).

Being not writed in a interpreted langage allows us to be free from a runtime & ease the interface with other tools.

Why not using make ?
make was too diverted to provide what we need but it's a building tool, not a task runner. We could feel that Makefile syntax can be tiedous to manipulate.

See also

• cargo-make