Build Tools

Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments.

ZenTest provides 4 different tools: zentest, unit_diff, autotest, and multiruby. zentest scans your target and unit-test code and writes your missing code based on simple naming rules, enabling XP at a much quicker pace. zentest only works with Ruby and Minitest or Test::Unit. There is enough evidence to show that this is still proving useful to users, so it stays. unit_diff is a command-line filter to diff expected results from actual results and allow you to quickly see exactly what is wrong. Do note that minitest 2.2+ provides an enhanced assert_equal obviating the need for unit_diff autotest is a continous testing facility meant to be used during development. As soon as you save a file, autotest will run the corresponding dependent tests. multiruby runs anything you want on multiple versions of ruby. Great for compatibility checking! Use multiruby_setup to manage your installed versions. *NOTE:* The next major release of zentest will not include autotest (use minitest-autotest instead) and multiruby will use rbenv / ruby-build for version management.

Add fuzzing, randomization, and stress to your tests. This library is an exploration to build the tools to let you write tests that find bugs. In memory of Carlo Flores.

Build reactive applications with the Rails tooling you already know and love.

Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We wanted something that's simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest. But also something we can easily extend for those one-off tasks, with a language that's a joy to use.

A command-line tool that reorganizes your Xcode project folder to match your Xcode groups Synx parses your .xcodeproj to build the same group structure out on the file system.

Tools for building frontend applications

Easily build your .Net or Mono project using this collection of Rake tasks. Albacore assist you in creating nugets, managing nugets, building your projects, handling the .Net compilers while making it very easy to integrate your ruby-code with existing dev-ops tools, such as Puppet, Chef, Capistrano or Vagrant/VirtualBox.

A Ruby module that wraps the Apache Ant build tool. Antwrap can be used to invoke Ant Tasks from a Ruby or a JRuby script. == FEATURES/PROBLEMS: Antwrap runs on the native Ruby interpreter via the RJB (Ruby Java Bridge gem) and on the JRuby interpreter. Antwrap is compatible with Ant versions 1.5.4, 1.6.5 and 1.7.0. For more information, see the Project Info (http://rubyforge.org/projects/antwrap/) page. == SYNOPSIS: Antwrap is a Ruby library that can be used to invoke Ant tasks. It is being used in the Buildr (http://incubator.apache.org/buildr/) project to execute Ant (http://ant.apache.org/) tasks in a Java project. If you are tired of fighting with Ant or Maven XML files in your Java project, take some time to check out Buildr!

Serve is a small Rack-based web server that makes it easy to serve ERB or HAML from any directory. Serve is an ideal tool for building HTML prototypes of Rails applications. Serve can also handle SASS, Textile, and Markdown if the appropriate gems are installed.

Sprout is a modular set of tools that take the tedium and frustration out of creating and managing programming projects by automatically installing and configuring external tools, libraries, commands and build tasks. Bundles are currently available to support ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, Flex and AIR development.

a code analyzer tool which extracted from rails_best_practices, it helps you easily build your own code analyzer tool.

A tool for building software packages with fpm.

Soulmate is a tool to help solve the common problem of developing a fast autocomplete feature. It uses Redis's sorted sets to build an index of partial words and corresponding top matches, and provides a simple sinatra app to query them. Soulmate finishes your sentences.

Toys is a configurable command line tool. Write commands in Ruby using a simple DSL, and Toys will provide the command line executable and take care of all the details such as argument parsing, online help, and error reporting. Toys is designed for software developers, IT professionals, and other power users who want to write and organize scripts to automate their workflows. It can also be used as a replacement for Rake, providing a more natural command line interface for your project's build tasks.

[](http://travis-ci.org/estately/rets) A pure-ruby library for fetching data from [RETS] servers. If you're looking for a slick CLI interface check out [retscli](https://github.com/summera/retscli), which is an awesome tool for exploring metadata or learning about RETS. [RETS]: http://www.rets.org

A highly customisable application configuration interface for building terminal tools. It supports many file formats such as YAML, JSON, TOML, INI, HCL and Java Properties.

Godmin is an admin framework for Rails 5+. Use it to build dedicated admin sections for your apps, or stand alone admin apps such as internal tools.

Ceedling is a build automation tool that helps you create and run C unit test suites. Ceedling provides two core functions: [1] It packages up several tools including the C unit test framework Unity, the mock generation tool CMock, and other features. [2] It simplifies tool configuration for embedded or native C toolchains and automates the running and reporting of tests. Ceedling projects are created with a YAML configuration file. A variety of conventions within the tool simplify generating mocks from C files and assembling suites of unit test functions.

A Ruby module that wraps the Apache Ant build tool. Antwrap can be used to invoke Ant Tasks from a Ruby or a JRuby script. == FEATURES/PROBLEMS: Antwrap runs on the native Ruby interpreter via the RJB (Ruby Java Bridge gem) and on the JRuby interpreter. Antwrap is compatible with Ant versions 1.5.4, 1.6.5 and 1.7.0. For more information, see the Project Info (http://rubyforge.org/projects/antwrap/) page. == SYNOPSIS: Antwrap is a Ruby library that can be used to invoke Ant tasks. It is being used in the Buildr (http://incubator.apache.org/buildr/) project to execute Ant (http://ant.apache.org/) tasks in a Java project. If you are tired of fighting with Ant or Maven XML files in your Java project, take some time to check out Buildr!

Tools to build your double entry financial ledger

"Code coverage tool for ruby 2.0 to 2.3. Simply "require 'coco'" from rspec or unit/test. Build simple html report. Report sources that have no tests. Configurable if you need to.

A simple Resque plugin that times and saves some simple metrics for Resque jobs back into redis. Based on this system you could build some simple auto-scaling mechanism based on the speed and ETA of queues. Also includes a hook/callback mechanism for recording/sending the metrics to your favorite tool (AKA statsd/graphite).

Provides a CLI tool for generating knife commands to build Chef-managed infrastructure from a simple JSON or YAML file.

Collection of classes to handle build systems (CMake, autotools, ...) and import mechanisms (tarballs, CVS, SVN, git, ...). It also offers a Rake integration to import and build such software packages. It is the backbone of the autoproj (http://rock-robotics.org/autoproj) integrated software project management tool.

DRG, development tool for rapid building of in-house (Intranet, private cloud) applications as well as CMS for creating complex, data-entry intensive web sites.

A tool for creating appliances from simple plain text files for various virtual environments.

Travis build artifacts tools

TarPit provides the glue for an unholy union of build tools. TarPit includes general automation for any rubygems project. It originally used and remains heavily influenced by Hoe (e.g. Manifest.txt.) However, it fully supports use of Bundler. The gemspec benefits from sensible automation but remains in a <project>.gemspec per Bundler's requirements.

Tools for building and unit testing Arduino libraries

Bee is a build tool the way it should bee!

atom-tools is an all-in-one Atom library. It parses and builds Atom (RFC 4287) entries and feeds, and manipulates Atom Publishing Protocol (RFC 5023) Collections. It also comes with a set of commandline utilities for working with AtomPub Collections. It is not the fastest Ruby Atom library, but it is comprehensive and makes handling extensions to the Atom format very easy.

AXElements is a UI automation library built on top of various OS X frameworks. You can use AXElements to write functional tests for Cocoa apps, script UI interactions, or even to build higher level tools such as screen readers.

Build tools for JavaScript projects

A simple tool for building static websites.

Zachary's Tool Kit contains a collection of reusable classes meant to simplify development of complex systems in Ruby. These classes provide functionality I often find myself needing from project to project. Instead of reinventing the wheel each time, I've started building a collection of reusable classes. Easy-bake DSLs, parallel processing, complex logging, templating and many other useful design patterns, for example are all contained in simple, reusable classes with a common interface and configuration style.

Gemstub is a very simple tool for creating the stub code you need to build a gem. Usage: at a command prompt simply type: gemstub your_gem_name_here That's it, after that, you all you have to do is the actual coding of your gem! Enjoy!

Kubernetes Deployment Tool: build docker image, compile Kubernetes YAML files, and apply them

Build and deploy tools for Cocoa apps using Sparkle for distributions and upgrades; it’s like Hoe but for Cocoa apps. Package up your OS X/Cocoa applications into Custom DMGs, generate Sparkle XML, and upload. Instead of hours, its only 30 seconds to release each new version of an application. Build and deploy tools for Cocoa apps using Sparkle for distributions and upgrades; it's like Hoe but for Cocoa apps. The main feature is a powerful rake task "rake appcast" which builds a release of your application, creates a DMG package, generates a Sparkle XML file, and posts the package and XML file to your remote host via rsync. All rake tasks: rake build # Build Xcode Release rake dmg[automount] # Create the dmg file for appcasting (`rake dmg`, or `rake dmg[automount]` to automatically mount the dmg) rake feed # Create/update the appcast file rake upload # Upload the appcast file to the host rake version:bump:major # Bump the gemspec by a major version. rake version:bump:minor # Bump the gemspec by a minor version. rake version:bump:patch # Bump the gemspec by a patch version. rake version:current # Display the current version

Build your Kynetx applications with the IDE of your choice! Installing the krl gem will give you command line tools that provides a simple interface that is similar to git or svn.

A set of tools to build apps using the Obvious Architecture

bookshop is an agile book publishing framework for building pdf and (e)books using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. The framework is optimized to help publishers, editors, and authors quickly ramp-up, allowing them to jump in and develop their html-to-pdf/(e)book flows by favoring convention over configuration, setting them up with best-practices, standards and tools from the start.

Teapot is a tool for managing complex cross-platform builds.

A build tool for Javascript and CSS that takes advantage of best-of-breed helper applications Javascript Lint and JSDoc Toolkit

Gladiator (short for Glimmer Editor) is a Code Editor / IDE beta project under on-going development. It is not intended to be a full-fledged editor by any means, yet mostly a fun educational exercise in using Glimmer to build a text editor. Gladiator is also a personal tool for shaping an editor exactly the way I like.

Darwinning provides tools to build genetic algorithm solutions using a Gene, Organism, and Population structure.

CLI tool that allows you to enable/disable app extensions from being built and embedded into your app. Use to maintain compatibility between two SDK versions or for a fast build mode.

A meta-gem for the Rubinius components that compile Ruby source code to bytecode.

Tool that allows to generate graphical visualization of xcode build process (targets) For usages examples run: xcode-build-times

Provides rake tasks for downloading and extracting tools depended on for further build activities.