Confetti

Write mobile app configuration files based on a W3C Widget compliant config.xml file

Installation

gem install confetti

Usage

$ confetti generate android_manifest

or, from Ruby

require "confetti"
c_whatever = Confetti::Config.new "/some/dir/config.xml"
c_whatever.write_android_manifest "/some/dir/AndroidManifest.xml"

Supported outputs right now: android_manifest, android_strings, webos_appinfo, ios_info, symbian_wrt_info, blackberry_widgets_config

Roadmap

• extra platforms: Windows Phone 7, who knows what else
• conversion from platform to platform (iOS to Android, or whatever)
• support for platform-specific preferences, and features as PhoneGap APIs
  • you can see the config.xml file @ http://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-start for a sample of where we plan to go
• maybe some documentation (let's not go crazy)

How to Add a New Platform

Let's say you want write a nintendo_ds_config generator:

• create a feature file, like features/nintendo.feature
  • specify all the files to generate for your platform
  • specify the name each file will go under
    • nintendo_ds_config
  • and the default filename
    • NintendoDSConfig.xml
  • run rake features to verify that it fails
• add a sample configuration file to spec/fixtures
  • the filename is based on the descriptive name
    • nintendo_ds_config_expected.xml
• add some failing specs
  • copy one of the existing specs from spec/templates
    • cp android_manifest_spec.rb nintendo_ds_config_spec.rb
  • modify the new file to match your new template
    • this isn't as well automated as we'd like
  • run rake spec to verify that they fail
• create your view class
  • as lib/confetti/templates/nintendo_ds_config.rb
  • should define Confetti::Template::NintendoDsConfig < Base
• create your template file
  • copy your expected config into lib/confetti/templates
    • as nintendo_ds_config.mustache
  • replace the variable sections with mustache tags
• in your view class
  • write methods that correspond to the variable sections in your template
• run rake spec to ensure everything was set up correctly
• add specs for generate and write methods
  • open spec/config_spec.rb
  • add the following line to the describe config generation block
    • it_should_have_generate_and_write_methods_for :nintendo_ds_config
• run rake spec, see them fail
• add generate and write methods
  • open lib/confetti/config.rb
  • add your platform to the generate_and_write call
    • generate_and_write ... :nintendo_ds_config
• run rake spec again
• build and install the gem, or whatever, so the cucumber tests work
• run feature/nintendo.feature
  • it's all green!
  • you're the man now dog