CodeWriter

Crystal utility class for generating code.

Installation

  1. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

    dependencies:
  code_writer:
    github: watzon/code_writer

  2. Run shards install

Usage

require "code_writer"

# Create a new writer (showing default options)
writer = CodeWriter.new(
  buffer: IO::Memory.new,
  newline_text: "\n",
  tab_count: 4,
  indent_style: :spaces,
  quote_style: :double,
  language_settings: CodeWriter::LANGUAGES["crystal"],
)

# Write code to the buffer
writer.comment do
  writer.puts("This is a comment")
  writer.puts("This comment is on another line")
end

writer.blank_line

writer.write("class Foo").block do
  writer.write("def bar").block do
    writer.puts("print \"baz\"")
  end
end

# Convert the buffer to a string
writer.to_s

Contributing

  1. Fork it (https://github.com/watzon/code_writer/fork)
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors