We talked several times about the union of dry-rb + ROM + Hanami, well today we can share good news on that front: introducing dry-files.
It's a gem that abstracts low level file manipulations.
The code was originally created for hanami-utils, as a way to power Hanami command line.
Then it was moved to dry-cli, when it was extracted from the Hanami code base.
Today it finally made its own debut as a standalone gem.
dry-cli is a powerful framework to build Ruby command line interfaces.
We use it as the main engine for the Hanami CLI, which also needs code generators.
The initial idea was to have this optional dry-cli library to support code generators via file manipulations.
But then we reached the point at which this library had more lines of code than dry-cli itself, so we decided to extract this library.
Here's a simple example:
# frozen_string_literal: true
require "dry/files"
files = Dry::Files.new
files.write("path/to/file", "Hello, World!") # intermediate directories are created, if missing
dry-files is shipped with an extensive API to touch, (re)write, read, and remove files/directories, inject/remove/append Ruby code lines and blocks, and so on.
Because of this abstraction we had the chance to introduce swappable adapters. One adapter (the default one) is for real file manipulations. It's meant to be used in production and integration tests. The other adapter is an in-memory file system. It's for very fast unit tests that cleanup by themselves.
# frozen_string_literal: true
require "dry/files"
files = Dry::Files.new(memory: true)
files.write("path/to/file", "Hello, World!") # create an in-memory file