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Juan C. Ruiz
Juan C. Ruiz

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Maintaining an open source gem in the Hacktoberfest

Some months ago I created a little gem to quickly access to different GitHub sections from the command line. The name of my gem is vpr (view pull request).

The idea of this gem is simple, you call the vpr command + some instruction + a commit SHA and you can access to a Github section of your interest. For example, vpr visit 123abc sends you to the commit page of the selected commit.

vpr visit command

In this Hacktoberfests I decided to open some issues to add the support for bitbucket pages. It was incredible the speed that the users started to contribute and recommend things for the project, like @andrewmcodes who added a GitHub action to run standardRB in the pull requests.

Add linter/formatter GitHub action #12

I noticed you aren’t using a linter/formatter like rubocop or standardRB. Would you be interested in adding one?

If so I can hook up a GitHub action for you. Check out this repo for an example of actions I have created.

Even if this is a simple side project, I'm happy to have had the opportunity to be a maintainer this year. I hope the next year have the opportunity to host a contribution fest in my city.

All these contributions will be released to RubyGems in November, thanks to all the participants for your support. If you are interested in know more about vpr, please visit the Github repository.

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VPR is a CLI that helps you to quickly manage your project in GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket

vpr

StandardRB CI

VPR is a CLI that helps you to quickly manage your project in GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket You can visit with ease different project sections, like the issues page, a specific commit create pull requests (merge requests for GitLab), and more, also is configurable for other platforms PRs are open.

vpr pull

Installation

  $ gem install vpr
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Usage

All the commands use the URL set as origin in your git remote to perform the web request, you can use the flag --remote=REMOTE to specify which service you want to visit if you have your project stored in more than one platform.

vpr branch

Open in your browser your current branch.

vpr branches

Open the page that shows the uploaded branch list.

vpr help

Show the likst of available vpr commands, you can pass an specific command to get more details.

vpr home

Open in your browser the project page.

vpr issues

Open the in…

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