retrospec | pluggable framework to automate repetitive project file

retrospec is a Ruby library. retrospec has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Retrospec is a framework that allows the automation of repetitive project file creation with just about any kind of programming project through the use of a pluggable architecture. The idea originally came from another project that performed the same function but was scoped to puppet module creation called puppet-retrospec. The goal of puppet-retrospec was to document the workflow and its best practices inside templates. This idea has now been generalized to cover any kind of project, therefore making it dead simple for anybody to get their project started with a simple command. There are two scenarios that this gem can be used for. The first scenario is to aid the creation of the project as many times information is spread across people, teams, blogs, forums and is often out of date. By keeping this information in templates we have removed the burden of finding this information from the user. However, there are many tools in existence today that already help in this area, but they are often not customizable. The second scenario it to augment an existing project that a user may have already started. When this is the case retrospec can "retrofit" an existing project with the latest workflow and best practices based on the templates inside a plugin gem. An existing project also contains information that can be used to automatically generate lots of files beyond just initial module creation. A great example of this is with puppet-retrospec, where the goal is to automaticly generate valid unit tests based on the code the author wrote. So as the user writes more code, they can easily create unit test files by just running retrospec. Furthermore, retrospec is meant to be run multiple times during a project lifecycle in order to augment it with new files. Because of the safe file creation, no file can be overwritten so the only way to overcome this is to manually delete the file and let retrospec recreate it automatically.