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moonglum / exogenesis

Build your dotfile installer, updater and teardown
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Execute file from dotfile-repository after update #57

Closed gildesmarais closed 10 years ago

gildesmarais commented 10 years ago

I keep a defaults.sh in my dotfiles-repository which contains some default settings for my Mac OSX.

After updating via rake up the file should be executed.

How can this be implemented the best way?

moonglum commented 10 years ago

I guess the solution for this would be a passenger, that shells out to a shell script at a location configurable in the configuration file. Do you want to try to implement it? Should be a good first passenger :smile: If you need any help, please ping me!

If you don't feel ready for that yet, I will when I can implement it! Can't promise a date for that though :wink:

gildesmarais commented 10 years ago

Sure, I can try to implement that. Should not be to hard (although I never wrote Ruby seriously before). I don't know when I will find the time, but I keep this task on my list. :)

I did a quick search on how to call shell-commands within ruby. There are several ways, mainly differing on stdin/stdout capabilities. Maybe some shell scripts need superuser privileges for commands, which (on most system setups) is acquired by sudo. Which way should I use?

bitboxer commented 10 years ago

The thing about ruby is: don't try to write it seriously. Try to have fun :wink: .