Jay

Project template for pony.

jay is a small shell tool that creates a minimal pony project with a sensible Makefile. It includes tests and benchmarks out of the box.

It's only tested on GNU/Linux with GNUMake at the moment. Please test on your environment fix the script, and send a PR.

Install

Install jay

git clone https://github.com/lisael/jay.git
make help
make install prefix=$HOME

To install the tool globally in /usr/local/bin:

sudo make install

Usage

Pony program

Create your pony project:

mkdir /tmp/jay_program
cd /tmp/jay_program
jay myprog

This created a pony package stub a initialised a git repo.

So, what do I do, now ?

make help

make test
make bench
make run
make
make install prefix=$HOME
myprog

That all you have to do, and myprog is installed! Wait... it does nothing useful, does it ? Sadly, jay does not code the features itself, at the moment.

Pony package

If your project is a package, add -l switch.

mkdir /tmp/jay_lib
cd /tmp/jay_lib
jay mylib
make help
# no install/uninstall target here
make test
make bench
make run
# this runs the program in example/main.pony

TODO

It does the job as-is, but we may add some refinements:

• a temporary mode: create a project in /tmp and jump to an editor to test an idea
• switch off git
• jump to an editor in Main
• ...

FAQ

1. What does jay mean ?

• Nothing. I wrote this an evening listening to Jay Reatard.
• 3 letters, left-hand/right-hand balanced on a qwerty keyboard, no known tool with the same name... Perfect name.
• Did I told you about Jay Reatard ? I should have.

2. Can I help ?

• Sure! Open an issue, a PR, get in touch with me (lisael on freenode) for any comment, suggestion or critics. I'm sure if you start using it you'll need features in jay or in the Makefile. Please share !
• If you like this, spread the word.
• Did you know that Jay plays with Lost Sounds ?