Description

Tux dresses up sinatra in a shell. Use it to interact with your helpers, view rendering and your app’s response objects. Tux also gives you commands to view your app’s routes and settings.

Install

Install the gem with:

gem install tux

Usage

Start with:

$ tux

If your app’s config file isn’t config.ru, specify with -c

$ tux -c app.ru

To interact with your helpers:

>> app.my_helper_method
...

To interact with any built-in sinatra methods i.e. request and response specific helper methods:

# depends on request
>> app.uri '/'
=> "http://:/"

# depends on response
>> app.headers
=> {"Content-Type"=>"text/html"}

For the above to work, tux sets up default empty request and response objects. To try the helpers with custom requests and responses:

>> app.request = Sinatra::Request.new({})
>> app.response = Sinatra::Response.new

To interact with your views:

>> app.erb :my_template
=> 'template rendered'

# also
>> app.haml
>> app.markdown
...

Tux lets you make requests and interact with rack response objects thanks to rack-test:

>> get '/'
=> #<Rack::MockResponse:0x13d452c @headers={"Content-Type"=>"text/html;charset=utf-8",
"Content-Length"=>"4"}, @errors="127.0.0.1 - - [05/Apr/2011 02:22:27] \"GET / \" 200 4
0.0015\n", @status=200, @original_headers={"Content-Type"=>"text/html;charset=utf-8",
"Content-Length"=>"4"}, @body="dude">

>> puts last_response.body
dude

>> post '/create'
...

To see the full list of rack-test actions you can make

>> rack.actions
=> [:request, :get, :post, :put, :delete, :head, :follow_redirect!, :header, :set_cookie,
:clear_cookies, :authorize, :basic_authorize, :digest_authorize, :last_response, :last_request]

Tux also comes with commands to give you a good overview of your app

>> routes
HEAD  "/"
HEAD  /book/:id
GET   "/"
GET   /book/:id

>> settings
absolute_redirects  true
add_charset         [/^text\//, "application/javascript", "application/xml",
"application/xhtml+xml"]
app_file            "./sample.rb"
bind                "0.0.0.0"
default_encoding    "utf-8"
dump_errors         true
empty_path_info     nil
environment         :development
lock                false
logging             false
method_override     false
port                4567
prefixed_redirects  false
public              "/my/path/public"
raise_errors        false
reload_templates    true
root                "/my/path"
run                 false
running             false
server              ["thin", "mongrel", "webrick"]
session_secret      "XXX"
sessions            false
show_exceptions     true
static              true
views               "/my/path/views"

Configure

Since tux is a ripl shell, tux is highly configurable. You can create tux commands in the format tux-COMMAND and enhance your shell by adding ripl plugins to ~/.riplrc. Read ripl’s readme for more.