Fixturex

Rails fixtures explorer.

Description

Rails fixtures are hard work. There are different sides to that, but one particular thing is that it's not obvious what other fixtures reference the one you're looking at and what fixtures reference those ones referencing the one you're looking at. And so on.

This little gem to the rescue. It's a command line tool that shows reference tree for a given fixture. It plugs in to vim's quickfix and it shouldn't be too much work to hook it up with vscode, if anyone is up for it.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'fixturex'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install fixturex

Usage

$ bundle exec fixturex test/fixtures/things.yml thing1

Vim

Here is one way to plug it into vim. Define a new command - let's call it Fixturex - in your (project) vimrc:

command! -nargs=0 Fixturex :cexpr system('bundle exec fixturex '. expand('%') .' '.shellescape(expand('<cword>'))) | copen

From then on, if the cursor is on the fixture name in a fixture file, running :Fixturex will populate the quickfix window with the reference tree.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bundle exec rspec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/featurist/fixturex.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.