Since I announced a RICH – Rakudo Issues Confirmation Helper, I’ve been playing a lot with an automation of test cases for known Rakudo bugs. One thing I’ve found really interesting in this journey is how Sparrow could be a good fit to express issues through automation scenarios. While I am not pretending on substitutingContinue reading “Chasing Rakudo bugs with Sparrow”
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Sparky on k8s cluster
Sparky is a lightweight CI server written on Raku. It uses Bailador for UI and Sparrow/Sparrowdo as an automation engine. Initially the server was written to be run on a single machine and did not scale well. So it only could handle a small/medium load, mostly working in localhost mode. Now, with the help ofContinue reading “Sparky on k8s cluster”
Rakudo Issues Player
Rakudo releases could be tough. Because the language is still in very development stage. New issues arrive daily. Let’s me introduce my attempt to help release managers and Rakudo developers to keep track of addressing existing issues with daily Rakudo commits. Enter a RIP service ( maybe I should choose a better name ? )Continue reading “Rakudo Issues Player”
Lightweight Markdown-to-PDF converter: pfft
Originally posted on I Fight for the Users:
I just released the first version of my new Markdown-to-PDF converter, pfft. It runs on Linux, at least as far back as Ubuntu 18.04. Why yet another converter when pandoc and many others already do the job? Size. Pandoc uses TeX to generate PDFs. All the other…
RakuPlay introduction
I’ve recently launched an experimental service called RakuPlay. It allows users to run Raku code snippets against different version of Rakudos including Rakudo developers SHA commits. It also supports automatic Raku modules installation using Rakufile syntax. A common user page looks like that: Rakudo developer page allows to run a code against certain Rakudo commits:Continue reading “RakuPlay introduction”
Raku-Utils Proposal
Sparrow is a Raku based automation tool comes with the idea of Sparrow plugins – small reusable pieces of code, runs as a command line or Raku function. Raku: Cli: One can even create wrappers for existing command line tools converting them into Raku functions: Wrapper code: Raku function: Wrappers for Raku modules command lineContinue reading “Raku-Utils Proposal”
RakuOps. Issue Number 2.
“RakuOps series – an attempt to show people who write on Raku how to use the language in daily DevOps tasks – automation, configuration management, Docker containers and so on“ It’s been two weeks I’ve been playing with Sparrowdo – an automation tool written on Raku and based on Sparrow automation framework. Now it’s aContinue reading “RakuOps. Issue Number 2.”
RakuOps. Issue 1.
RakuOps series – an attempt to show people who write on Raku how to use the language in daily DevOps tasks – automation, configuration management, Docker containers building and so on. While I don’t know for sure which topics will attract the community interest, I hope that during this series I’ll get some feedback soContinue reading “RakuOps. Issue 1.”
Managing External Raku Dependencies using Sparrow
A few days ago several discussions have been launched where people try to deal with managing none Raku / native dependencies for Raku modules. While a solution is far from being found or at least is complete here is my, Sparrow take on the problem. Raku-native-deps Raku-native-deps is a Sparrow plugin to parse META6.json fileContinue reading “Managing External Raku Dependencies using Sparrow”
RakuDist – Dead Easy Way to Test Raku Cli Applications
Nowadays many Raku modules authors ship cli tools as a part of their Raku modules distributions.RakuDist provides a dead easy way to test those scripts. The benefit, it takes a minimal coding andfully integrated into RakuDist service. Cli application example Say, we have a script.raku shipped as a part of a Raku module. $ catContinue reading “RakuDist – Dead Easy Way to Test Raku Cli Applications”
