gem-compare: A new tool for tracking upstream changes

[Josef Stribny]

Hi all,

I pushed today a new version of gem-compare (0.0.3). Apart from the bug fixes there are three new features:

1, Support for different platforms
   Just use --platform option to compare gems for different platforms.

2, Brief mode
   I finally implemented a first version of the brief mode (-b) that should save the time looking
   over all of the changes because it filters out unimportant spec parameters and lists folders
   instead of files (unless there is something to care about for the given file). Check it out and
   tell me if it's reasonable enough or if we should take some other direction.

3, Checking of added files
   gem-compare now runs permissions and other checks against the new added files as well.

I would like to thank everyone for suggestions and testing that made this version possible.

Best Regards
Josef

----- Original Message -----
From: "Josef Stribny" <jstribny at redhat.com>
To: "Ruby SIG mailing list" <ruby-sig at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 8:47:02 AM
Subject: Re: gem-compare: A new tool for tracking upstream changes

> I opened two issues but so far, the gem is really useful.

I am glad you like it and thank you for the suggestions!

Best Regards
Josef

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Rafaniello" <jrafanie at redhat.com>
To: "Ruby SIG mailing list" <ruby-sig at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 4:32:13 PM
Subject: Re: gem-compare: A new tool for tracking upstream changes

This is very awesome Josef!

Thanks!

I opened two issues but so far, the gem is really useful.

Note: I didn't have the bundler issue that Vit is reporting.
I'm running from MRI 2.1.2 on OSX via chruby.

https://github.com/strzibny/gem-compare/issues/4
https://github.com/strzibny/gem-compare/issues/5


----- Original Message -----
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to announce the first release of the gem-compare[0] plugin,
> a tool made to simplified the process of updating gems in Fedora.
> 
> Instead of manually fetching and unpacking new gem releases, comparing
> their dependencies, and using grep and diff tools to check the differences
> between the releases I decided to automate this process as much as I can.
> 
> The result was a script that I decided to turn into a RubyGems plugin for
> clarity and ease of use. The main purpose of the tool is to report
> the differences between:
> 
> * gemspec parameters such as license, authors, homepage, ...
> * runtime and development dependencies
> * Gemfile dependencies
> * files including shebangs and permissions modifications
> 
> The usage is as follows:
> $ gem compare rails 3.0.0 4.0.0 -k
> 
> I usually run it in the git directory of the associated Fedora package so
> it downloads the missing new version, unpacks both, run the comparison and
> print the results. I then can go straight to editing the .spec file and
> update what is necessary.
> 
> However, you can use the tool in many other ways, e.g. running:
> $ gem compare rails '>=3.0.0' --runtime
> 
> will reveal that activeresource dependency was dropped in 4.0.0 and
> actionview dependency was added in 4.1.0.
> 
> Please see more examples at GitHub[0] and all valid options with:
> $ gem compare --help
> 
> To install it, simply run:
> 
> $ gem install gem-compare
> 
> Once it's more tested and bugs[1] are resolved I will package it for Fedora.
> I didn't package it yet because it needs one dependency that is not yet in
> Fedora repositories.
> 
> I would like to kindly ask you to help me to test it and tell me what you
> think.
> 
> Best Regards
> Josef
> 
> 
> [0] https://github.com/strzibny/gem-compare
> [1] https://github.com/strzibny/gem-compare/issues
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