pharo monkey issue updater

ever felt bored of waiting for your issue to be checked,
try now our new monkey checker script:

https://gitorious.org/pharo-build/pharo-build/blobs/master/pharo-shell-scripts/issueLoader.rb

best
ben & cami

Camillo Bruni-3 wrote

try now our new monkey checker script:

Ah, thank goodness... Ruby (Smalltalk's kid brother) instead of a bash script ;-)

On 2012-06-29, at 17:36, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:

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> Camillo Bruni-3 wrote
>>
>> try now our new monkey checker script:
>>
>
> Ah, thank goodness... Ruby (Smalltalk's kid brother) instead of a bash
> script ;-)

There is one RULE:

As soon as you need an IF statement, DUMP BASH AND GO RUBY!

I would love to use pharo for these tasks, but it simply is not ready yet :/

- missing backtics `ls -algh`
- crappy string escape modes '\n\t Fooo \''

I know you can get close to this using purely smalltalk syntax, but it's like
being incompatible with 99% of the languages currently in use :P

Camillo Bruni-3 wrote

- missing backtics `ls -algh`

Yes, backticks make Ruby "Bash Scripting on Steroids". Whenever you need to issue commands, you can just drop it inside some `s unaltered. But the real fun begins with `ls #{rubyVariable}`, which is pretty darn readable and succinct (of course at the price of more syntax... the ruby way).

On 29 Jun 2012, at 17:57, Camillo Bruni wrote:

> - missing backtics `ls -algh`
> - crappy string escape modes '\n\t Fooo \''

What about

'ls -lah' executeAsOSProcess

and

'\n\t Fooo \''  withEscapes

which could become with variables

('ls {1}' format: { '/tmp/foo/' }) executeAsOSProcess

I just made up the selector names, maybe there are better ones.

I told Camillo more os less the same :)

'ls -la' systemTo: [ :stream | ]. "piped"
'ls -la>z' system. "non piped"

can do the work perfectly... don't need to crapy syntax to have the same power.
Being able to do something like:

'$myvar \n' seems more needed for me (also with some regexp there).

Esteban

On Jun 29, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:

Camillo Bruni-3 wrote

ever felt bored of waiting for your issue to be checked,
try now our new monkey checker script:

https://gitorious.org/pharo-build/pharo-build/blobs/master/pharo-shell-scripts/issueLoader.rb

I was confused by this announcement and the script itself. I thought it could be parameterized to be used on any image (e.g. locally on my machine), esp. since /.image (wasn't sure exactly what the $/ meant) is the first thing in the usage instructions. When I tried it, I found hard-coded values. So...
* cool monkey
* I don't know what we're supposed to do with the script, unless it's to show off that we've evolved from Bash to Ruby, which is cool :)

EstebanLM wrote

'ls -la>z' system. "non piped"

That's clean enough, and very easy to implement...
ByteString>>system

        | process |
        process := PipeableOSProcess waitForCommand: self.
        ^ process output.

Of course, with the current implementation of OSProcess, it's very easy to hang the image that way, so we might want to #setNonBlockingOutput, or do our own polling...