Specification

In order to create a sublet, you need to create a specification which basically contains some information about your sublet.

Attributes

Here is a list of known attributes:

name

Name of the sublet

Example:

1 spec.name = "Sublet" 

version

Version of the sublet

Example:

1 spec.version = "0.1" 

tags

List of tags to categorize the sublet

Example:

1 spec.tags = [ "Broken" ]

files

List of files in the sublet

Example:

1 spec.files = [ "sublet.rb" ]

icons

List of supplied icons

Example:

1 spec.icons = [ "icon.xbm" ]

description

Short description of the sublet

Example:

1 spec.description = "A shiny new sublet" 

notes

Longer description of the sublet

Example:

1 spec.notes = <<NOTES
2 This sublet is just a dummy, have fun with it!
3 NOTES

authors

List of authors of the sublet in case there are more than one

Example:

1   spec.authors = [ "You" ]

contact

Contact mail address

Example:

1 spec.contact = "[email protected]" 

date

Date of creation

Example:

1 spec.date = "Sat Sep 13 19:00 CET 2008" 

config

Description of config settings

Example:

1 spec.config = [
2   {
3     :name        => "format_string",
4     :type        => "string",
5     :description => "Format of the clock (man date)",
6     :def_value   => "Default value" 
7   },
8 ]

grabs

Description of grabs

Example:

1 spec.grabs = {
2   :SubletTest => "Test grab" 
3 ]

required_version

Required version of subtle

Example:

1 spec.required_version = "0.9.10" 

add_dependency(name, version)

Add a gem dependency

Example:

1 spec.add_dependency("a_gem", "0.0")

Template

If you use the template command sur will create an empty template with a spec file.

Example:

 1 # Dummy specification file
 2 # Created with sur-0.2.155
 3 Sur::Specification.new do |s|
 4   s.name             = "Dummy" 
 5   s.authors          = [ "Christoph Kappel" ]
 6   s.date             = "Sat Sep 13 19:00 CET 2008" 
 7   s.contact          = "[email protected]" 
 8   s.description      = "Does nothing" 
 9   s.notes            = <<NOTES
10 Some verbosive information about the sublet
11 NOTES
12   s.config           = [
13     { :name => "something", :type => "string",  :description => "Configure something" }
14   ]
15   s.version          = "0.0" 
16   s.tags             = [ "Dummy" ]
17   s.files            = [ "dummy.rb" ]
18   s.icons            = [ "icons/dummy.xbm" ]
19 
20   # Requirements
21   s.required_version = "0.9.1883" 
22   s.add_dependency("a_gem", "0.0")
23 end