Robo

What is Robo?

Robo is a task runner you always have been looking for. It allows you to write fully customizable tasks in common OOP PHP style. Robo has comprehensive list of built-in common tasks for development, testing, and deployment.

Use Robo to

automate your common tasks
start workers
run parallel tasks
execute commands
run tests
watch filesystem changes

Install

Via Composer

Add to composer.json of your project

require-dev: {
    "consolidation/robo": "^1.0.0"
}

or install it globally:

composer global require consolidation/robo

Download robo.phar

Using Phar

wget http://robo.li/robo.phar

or download it via HTTPS from GitHub releases

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

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

Now you can use it just like robo.

Feedback

#Robo is a very amazing project. The one project that was missing to php developer environment. I really like it. @codeception @codegyre
— Hugo Leonardo C. S. (@hugoleodev) February 20, 2014

I've been playing w/ @davert's Robo this evening, converting a rickety shell script for building #Drupal. Very nice. pic.twitter.com/gGtJu0EWSC
— Paul Byrne (@pfaocle) January 29, 2014

<?php // all tasks are defined in RoboFile.php
class RoboFile {
/**
 * Each public method is a command in runner
 * parameters are arguments in console
 *
 * use './robo test' to run tests on a project
 */
function test($pathToSelenium = '~/selenium.jar')
{
    // starts PHP server in background
    $this->taskPhpServer(8000)
        ->background()
        ->dir('web')
        ->run();

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

    // runs PHPUnit tests
    $this->taskPHPUnit()
        ->run();
}

/**
 * Cleanup temporary files
 */
function clean()
{
    $this->_cleanDir(['app/cache', 'app/logs']);
    $this->_deleteDir(['web/assets/tmp_uploads']);
}

/**
 * Minify assets
 */
function assets()
{
    // concat CSS files
    $this->taskConcat(['web/css/core.css','web/css/theme.css'])
        ->to('main.css')
        ->run();

    // minify CSS files
    $this->taskMinify('main.css')
        ->to('main.min.css')
        ->run();

    // install Bower dependencies
    $this->taskBowerInstall()
        ->dir('web')
        ->run();
}
// ...Git, Ssh, Docker, and other tasks available
}