HitchDev

HitchDev is a group of self contained, heavily dogfooded python libraries - mainly used for setting up and running dev and test environments:

Fully documented general tools:

• StrictYAML – YAML parser and validator that parses a restricted subset of the YAML spec.
• Commandlib - invoke UNIX commands with an easy to use, pythonic API.

Fully documented testing projects:

• HitchStory – StrictYAML based BDD framework.
• HitchRunPy - tool to invoke and run snippets of python code.
• SeleniumDirector – declare page (CSS/ID/xpath/etc.) selectors and give them readable names which can be used in readable python code or tests.
• Faketime – lie to UNIX processes about the current time/date - useful for date and time dependent user stories.

Projects that will be documented soon:

• pathquery - declaratively API to recursively search for files.
• dirtemplate - create and build templated directories using jinja2 (used for documentation generation).
• pretendsmtp - mock SMTP server.
• templex - templated regex matcher
• faketime - tool to lie to running processes (e.g. CPython or postgres) about the current system time.
• xeger - generate strings from regular expressions.
• icommandlib - extension to commandlib to invoke and interact with running UNIX commands.
• hitchkey - python project command runner and invoker that sets up its own virtualenv and working directories.
• prettystack - display pretty stacktraces in python.

Build tools that will be documented soons:

• hitchbuildpy - tool to precisely build virtualenvs from specified versions of python (bundles pyenv).
• hitchbuildpg - tool to precisely build development/testing postgres databases from scratch (installs postgres itself).
• hitchbuild - generic build tool used as a basis for above libraries.