Welcome to DevAssistant documentation!

DevAssistant - start developing with ease.

Contents

• User Documentation
• Developer Documentation
  • DevAssistant Core
  • Yaml Assistant Reference
  • Common Assistant Behaviour

Overview

DevAssistant is developer’s best friend (right after coffee).

DevAssistant can help you with creating and setting up basic projects in various languages, installing dependencies, setting up environment etc. There are three main types of functionality provided:

• da crt - create new project from scratch
• da mod - take local project and do something with it (e.g. import it to Eclipse)
• da prep - prepare development environment for an upstream project or a custom task

DevAssistant is based on idea of per-{language/framework/...} “assistants” with hierarchical structure. E.g. you can run:

$ da crt python django -n ~/myproject # sets up Django project named "myproject" inside your home dir
$ da crt python flask -n ~/flaskproject # sets up Flask project named "flaskproject" inside your home dir
$ da crt ruby rails -n ~/alsomyproject # sets up RoR project named "alsomyproject" inside your home dir

DevAssistant also allows you to work with a previously created project, for example import it to Eclipse:

$ da mod eclipse # run in project dir or use -p to specify path

Last but not least, DevAssistant allows you to prepare environment for executing arbitrary tasks or developing upstream projects (either using “custom” assistant for projects previously created by DevAssistant or using specific assistant for specific projects):

$ da prep custom custom -u scm_url

DevAssistant works on Python 2.6, 2.7 and >= 3.3.

This whole project is licensed under GPLv2+.