crane

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Builds you into the pit of success

We hate writing build scripts and continuous integration (ci) templates every time we start a new project or when we work on a project that does not have them. I'm sure you do as well. This is where cranecomes in. Invoke crane and it can build you a blank project, complete with a build or you can get crane to assemble you a build on an existing project. No more messing around for hours on a build server!!

Installation

To install crane, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell: choco install crane

Don't have chocolatey installed? https://chocolatey.org/

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crane init SallyFx

This creates a new project called SallyFx in the current directory.

> crane init SallyFx

C:\DEV\TEMP\SALLYFX
|   build.ps1
|
+---build
|       default.ps1
|       NuGet.exe
|       psake-ext.psm1
|       psake.ps1
|       psake.psm1
|
\---src
    |   SallyFx.sln
    |
    +---.nuget
    |       packages.config
    |
    +---SallyFx
    |   |   Calculator.cs
    |   |   SallyFx.csproj
    |   |
    |   \---Properties
    |           AssemblyInfo.cs
    |
    \---SallyFx.UnitTests
        |   CalculatorFeature.cs
        |   packages.config
        |   SallyFx.UnitTests.csproj
        |
        \---Properties
                AssemblyInfo.cs

You can now build this project...

Supported commands

init

init initializes a new project.

Example:

crane init SallyFx create a new project called 'SallyFx'

The default crane project is quite opinionated we have made lots of decisions. Here are the highlights:

Build

psake powershell build system
restores nuget packages
patches your assembly info files with information from VERSION.txt and last git commit message, if it's a git repo
builds
runs unit tests

Project template

Solution file with
Class library
Unit test library
- Using xbehave, EasyFakes, bdd style tests

help

help {command} lists required and optional parameters for commands