grunt-docu-examples-tester

This grunt plugin is written in order to help developers test examples, that they use in their documemtation.

Installation

npm install grunt-docu-examples-tester

Usage

grunt pull-examples takes examples out of the documentation files, creates a test for each example, if it does not already exist. If it exists, the actual example will be pasted in it.

grunt push-examples takes examples from the tests and pastes them into the documentation files

Settings

"pull-examples": {
  def: {
    src: ["docs/**/*.md"], // path to the documentation files
    templates: ["lib/tasks/files/"], // path to the test-templates
    tests: ["tests/Cojoko/examples/"]  //path to the tests
  }
}

"push-examples": {
  def: {
    src: ["docs/**/*.md"], //path to the documentation files
    tests: ["tests/Cojoko/examples/"]  //path to the test files  
  }
}

examples format

The examples in the documentation files (provided as src) should be written in the format:

```javascript
//<exampleName>Example: <exampleDescription>
...
```

For example:

```js
// basicClassExample: Classes can be created

Cojoko.Class('ACME.Exchange.Share', {

  properties: {
    title: { is: 'rw', required: true, isPrivate: true },
    isin: { is: 'rw', required: true, isPrivate: true },
    wkn: { is: 'rw', required: true, isPrivate: true },
    price: { is: 'rw', required: true, isPrivate: true, type: 'ACME.Exchange.Price' }
  },

  methods: {
    toString: function () {
      return this.title+' ('+this.isin+'/'+this.wkn+')';
    }
  }
});
```

it does not matter if you use js or javascript on the code fence

test template format

• The template can contain placeholders <exampleName> and <exampleDescription>. They will be changed correspondingly.

• The test template must contain lines

/* beginning of the example */
// Place for the example
/* end of the example */

so that the tasks can paste and parse an example correctly.

For example a test template could look like this:

describe("<exampleName>", function () {
  it("<exampleDescription>", function () {
    /* beginning of the example */
    // Place for the example
    /* end of the example */

    assert.equal(true, true);
  });
});

And the replaced test would look like this:

describe("basicClass", function () {
  it("can have properties and methods", function () {
    /* beginning of the example */
    Cojoko.Class("ACME.Exchange.Share", {
      properties: { 
        title: { is: "rw", required: true, isPrivate: true }
      },
      methods: {
        toString: function () {
          return this.title + " (" + this.isin + "/" + this.wkn + ")";
        }
      }
    });
    /* end of the example */

    assert.equal(true, true);
  });
});

Migration

1.0.0 => 1.1.0

• The examples are now correctly indented, new template rules

License

Copyright (c) 2013 ps-webforge.com, Yulia Bobkova

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.