SingularityDsl

A DSL lib for your SingularityCI instance. Inspired by TravisCI's .travis.yml

...Except with the full power of Ruby, its gems & your awesome JenkinsCI machine(s).

All you need is a .singularityrc file in your repository, the singularity_runner (provided by this gem) and you're ready to go!

Installation

$ gem install singularity_dsl

Runner Usage

Commands:
 singularity_runner batch BATCH_NAME                               # Run single task batch in the .singularityrc script.
 singularity_runner help [COMMAND]                                 # Describe available commands or one specific command
 singularity_runner tasks                                          # Available tasks.
 singularity_runner test                                           # Run singularity script.
 singularity_runner testmerge FORK BRANCH INTO_BRANCH [INTO_FORK]  # Perform a testmerge into the local repo and then run .singularityrc

Options:
  -t, [--task-path=TASK_PATH]          # Directory where custom tasks are defined
                                       # Default: ./.singularity
  -a, [--all-tasks], [--no-all-tasks]  # Do not stop on task failure(s), collect all results
  -s, [--script=SCRIPT]                # Specify path to a .singularityrc file
                                       # Default: ./.singularityrc
      [--env=one two three]            # EnvVars to set, formatted as VAR:VAL
      [--flags=one two three]          # Runtime flags to set for use with flag_set?, formatted as VAR:VAL

The singularity_runner is designed to do two things:

• load custom tasks from the repository you're running it in (.singularity dir by default).
• read a .singularityrc file.

.singularityrc

Just a ruby file describing what you want to run. The commands that are run are called tasks. For example:

shelltask { command 'bundle' }
rubocop
rspec

Running singularity_runner test in the same directory as this file, everything just gets executed. Simple, right?

Runner Execution Breakdown

What's actually happening is:

• the runner first loads up any task definitions. Built in task definitions here
• runner then looks for any custom defined definitions in your cwd/.singularity dir
• loads the entire .singularityrc file into an internally managed DSL object
• depending on what command is run, evaluates blocks in .singularityrc

Task Batches

You can even define batches of tasks to be run. So for example:

batch :test do
  rubocop
  rspec
end

shelltask { command 'bundle' }

Running singularity_runner test on this file will only run the bundle shelltask. Why? Because defining a batch does not run anything. It's just a way for your to organize what tasks should be run together.

To actually run it, you need this line: invoke_batch :test

Or, if you just want to run that one batch, without the bundle shelltask, you can tell the runner to do just that! singularity_runner batch test

Task API, Custom Tasks & Task Extensions

A task is just a ruby class. For base functionality, it needs an execute method. You can have it do whatever you want in that method. To further customize it, you can define a description method that returns a string with some info about the task.

Tasks also take ruby blocks.

What this means is that you can pass blocks of code to tasks from your .singularityrc. Those blocks of code would then be executed in the context of the Task. Think resources in chef. You can use these blocks to configure how certain task declarations run.

singularity_runner, Custom Tasks & Task Extensions

As mentioned, singularity_runner can load custom tasks or task extensions. By default, it will load all .rb files in cwd/.singularity

This allows you to do a few things:

1. abstract out common tasks that you use to build, test, etc your code
2. configure tools / tasks with default values specific to your use case
3. create a common lib of task definitions to be shared amoungst your repositories

To see a list of base tasks, their class names, what their names are in .singularityrc's context, you just have to run:

singularity_runner tasks

Which yields something like:

Task       Task Function  Description

Rake       rake           Simple resource to just wrap the Rake CLI
RSpec      rspec          Run RSpec tests. Uses RSpec::Core
Rubocop    rubocop        Runs rubocop, loads .rubocop.yml from ./
ShellTask  shelltask      Runs a SH command using Mixlib::ShellOut

Note that there is a task called shelltask, defined by a ruby Task class called ShellTask. Say you wanted to create a task for a common echo command. You can simply create a ruby file in cwd/.singularity, say echo.rb

class Echo extends ShellTask
  def execute
    command 'echo "hello"'
    super
  end
end

The singularity_runner tasks command should then list your task as one of the tasks usable from your cwd.

Task       Task Function  Description

Rake       rake           Simple resource to just wrap the Rake CLI
RSpec      rspec          Run RSpec tests. Uses RSpec::Core
Rubocop    rubocop        Runs rubocop, loads .rubocop.yml from ./
ShellTask  shelltask      Runs a SH command using Mixlib::ShellOut
Echo       echo           Runs the Echo task.

The Echo task does a couple of things. Take a look at the ShellTask class. All Echo is doing is setting the shell command in the parent class to echo "hello" & then calling it. Nothing special here, but you can hopefully see that this opens up a lot of possibilities.

Builtin Tasks

Task

Base task that all tasks extend from. If an instance of this class is ever used, or if a child class does not define execute, an error is raised.

Configuration Methods	Description
N/A	N/A

Rake

Run a rake task!

Configuration Methods	Description
target	What Rake task to execute

RSpec

Run a suite of rspec tests.

Configuration Methods	Description
config_file	Where rspec config file is
spec_dir	Where rspec tests are

Rubocop

Run rubocop.

Configuration Methods	Description
config_file	Where Rubocop.yml is
file	Add a file to the list of files to run rubocop against

ShellTask

Run a SH task using Mixlib::ShellOut

Configuration Methods	Description
no_fail	Runner does not fail if this task fails to run
command	Shell command to execute
alt	Alternative shell command to execute (used in conjunction with condition)
condition	Shell command to execute. If successful, run the command set via command, otherwise run alt

Runstate Callbacks

These are blocks of tasks that you can run depending on the status of the runner (i.e.: whether all of your tasks succeeded in running, failed, errored, etc).

Block Name	Description
on_success	invoked when singularity_runner runs everything (via test, testmerge, batch) successfully
on_error	invoked when singularity_runner errors out while trying to run something in your .singularityrc, after it has been processed
on_fail	invoked when any of your tasks error out (e.g.: shelltask returns a non-zero exit code)
always	always invoked after a .singularityrc run

Advanced Usage with testmerge

singularity_runner testmerge has a very bare-bones implementation of a git merge. Given a fork, a branch in that fork, a base_repo & base_branch, the runner will:

• merge fork:branch into base_repo:base_branch
• perform a diff between the two
• take the file list (the changeset) and inject it into a running instance of the DSL
• run the test command (unless the -r flag is given with a batch name, then it runs a batch)

Why would you do this? To conditionally execute blocks of tasks or batches based on what files changed! This can help in automating test workflows in your CI system, testing merges into trunk, etc.

But how?

Working with changesets from the testmerge command

The DSL exposes 2 methods to help you determine whether you want to execute blocks of code or not:

Method	Args	Return	Desc
files_changed?	String or Array	Boolean	Performs a file extension regex match, returns true if any files in the changeset match, false otherwise
changed_files	String or Array	Array	Returns all files that have extensions that match the given values, returns an array of those files

So for example, say you only want to execute rspec tests when there are Ruby file changes. You can do something like this:

batch :ruby do
  shelltask { command 'bundle' }
  rake { target 'build_app' }
  rspec
end

batch :test_merge do
  if files_changed? 'js'
    shelltask { command 'grunt testjs' }
  end

  if files_changed? 'rb'
    rubocop { files changed_files('rb') }
    invoke_batch :ruby
  end
end

Running

singularity_runner testmerge [email protected]:me/repo feature-branch master [email protected]:org/repo -r test_merge

Will perform the test merge & then pass ALL of the changed files in that merge into the .singularityrc!

Environment Variables && Custom Runtime Flags

The singularity_runner allows you to set custom environment variables for your scripts & tools to use.

singularity_runner test --env MY_REPO:[email protected]:me/foo

Will set ENV['MY_REPO'] = '[email protected]:me/foo'

Similarly, you can also set flags to better direct more complicated workflows.

singularity_runner test --flags npm phpunit-suite:ci

Will allow you to run something like this:

# works! npm == true here
if flag? 'npm' do
  npm { action 'install' }
end

# suite_name == 'ci' here
suite_name = flag? 'phpunit-suite' || 'default'
phpunit { suite suite_name }

Assuming that you have already defined npm & phpunit tasks.

Using Task File Paths during runtime

The DSL also keeps a record of where each task is defined. To get that path:

SingularityDsl.task_file(self)

This is just a utility function provided to you when writing new Tasks. You can use it in your .singularityrc but it's not recommended that you do.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Make sure you run the tests!

bundle exec rake test:all