RoboTask

Modern and simple PHP task runner inspired by Grunt and Rake aimed to automate common tasks:

• executing daemons (and workers)
• performing cleanups
• watching filesystem changes
• running multiple Symfony / Artisan Commands
• starting PHP server
• running tests
• writing cross-platform scripts

What makes Robo different?

• Robo is pure PHP.
• Robo provides clean OOP interface for declaring tasks.
• Robo is very simple and intuitive in use.
• Robo is framework-agnostic.
• Robo uses Symfony Console component but allows you to put all your commands in one file.

Installing

Phar

Download robo.phar >

wget http://codegyre.github.io/Robo/robo.phar

To install globally put robo.phar in /usr/bin.

sudo chmod +x robo.phar && mv robo.phar /user/bin/robo

Now you can use it just like robo.

Composer

• Add "codegyre/robo": "*" to composer.json.
• Run composer install
• Use vendor/bin/robo to execute Robo tasks.

Usage

All tasks are defined as public methods in RoboFile.php. It can be created by running robo. All protected methods in traits that start with task prefix are tasks and can be configured and executed in your tasks.

Examples

The best way to learn Robo by example is to take a look into its own RoboFile or RoboFile of Codeception project

Here are some snippets from them:

---

Run acceptance test with local server and selenium server started.

<?php
class RoboFile extends \Robo\Tasks
{

    function testAcceptance($seleniumPath = '~/selenium-server-standalone-2.39.0.jar')
    {
       // launches PHP server on port 8000 for web dir
       // server will be executed in background and stopped in the end
       $this->taskServer(8000)
            ->background()
            ->dir('web')
            ->run();

       // running Selenium server in background
        $this->taskExec('java -jar '.$pathToSelenium)
            ->background()
            ->run();

        // loading Symfony Command and running with passed argument
        $this->taskCommand(new \Codeception\Command\Run('run'))
            ->arg('suite','acceptance')
            ->run();
    }
}
?>

If you execute robo you will see this task added to list of available task with name: test:acceptance. To execute it you shoud run robo test:acceptance. You may change path to selenium server by passing new path as a argument:

robo test:acceptance "C:\Downloads\selenium.jar"

Using watch task so you can use it for running tests or building assets.

<?php
class RoboFile extends \Robo\Tasks {
    use \Robo\Task\Watch;

    function watchComposer()
    {
        // when composer.json changes `composer update` will be executed
        $this->taskWatch()->monitor('composer.json', function() {
            $this->taskComposerUpdate()->run();
        })->run();
    }
}
?>

---

Cleaning logs and cache

<?php
class RoboFile extends \Robo\Tasks
{
    public function clean()
    {
        $this->taskCleanDir([
            'app/cache'
            'app/logs'
        ])->run();

        $this->taskDeleteDir([
            'web/assets/tmp_uploads',
        ])->run();
    }

?>

This task cleans app/cache and app/logs dirs (ignoring .gitignore and .gitkeep files) Can be executed by running:

robo clean

---

Creating Phar archive

function buildPhar()
{
    $files = Finder::create()->ignoreVCS(true)->files()->name('*.php')->in(__DIR__);
    $packer = $this->taskPackPhar('robo.phar');
    foreach ($files as $file) {
        $packer->addFile($file->getRelativePathname(), $file->getRealPath());
    }
    $packer->addFile('robo','robo')
        ->executable('robo')
        ->run();
}

---

Publishing New Release of Robo

<?php
    public function release()
    {
        $this->say("Releasing Robo");

        $changelog = $this->taskChangelog()
            ->version(\Robo\Runner::VERSION)
            ->askForChanges()
            ->run();

        if (!$changelog->wasSuccessful()) return false;

        $this->taskGit()
            ->add('CHANGELOG.md')
            ->commit('updated changelog')
            ->push()
            ->run();

        $this->taskGitHubRelease(\Robo\Runner::VERSION)
            ->uri('Codegyre/Robo')
            ->askDescription()
            ->changes($changelog->getData())
            ->run();
    }
}
?>

To create new release we run:

✗ ./robo release
➜  Releasing Robo
?  Changed in this release:Mered Tasks and Traits to same file
?  Changed in this release:Added Watcher task
?  Changed in this release:Added GitHubRelease task
?  Changed in this release:Added Changelog task
?  Changed in this release:Added ReplaceInFile task
?  Changed in this release:
 [Robo\Task\ChangelogTask] Creating CHANGELOG.md
 [Robo\Task\ReplaceInFileTask] CHANGELOG.md updated
 [Robo\Task\ExecTask] running git add CHANGELOG.md
 [Robo\Task\ExecTask] running git commit -m "updated changelog"
 [Robo\Task\GitHubReleaseTask] {"url":"https://api.github.com/repo...

We need more tasks!

Create your own tasks and send them as Pull Requests or create packages prefixed with robo- on Packagist.

Concepts

Tasks are classes that implement Robo\TaskInterface with method run defined. Each other method of task should be used for specifying task options and returns $this for fluent interface:

Tasks are included into RoboFile with traits. Traits should contain protected methods with task prefix that return a new instance of a task.

Credits

Robo was created by Michael Bodnarchuk @davert for purposes of Codeception project. For updated please should follow @davert. And yes, license is MIT.