How to install omnimax
- Download and install ActivePython
- Open Command Prompt
- Type
pypm install omnimax
Lastest release
omnimax
Omnimax is an experimental framework that aims to make creating [living documentation](https://www.relishapp.com/relish/relish/docs/living-documentation) easy for any SDK or framework. It can be used for a single tool, but Omnimax primarily targeted at SDKs that have been ported to several languages or frameworks. It will turn merge generic documentation with framework-specific sample code. The hope is that this will help generate a comparison between ports (e.g.: a report showing which features are implemented by each port), and also help ensure that important high-level features have a test, documentation, and sample code.
Omnimax is still new and highly experimental, so as long as the version for now please remember the [Semantic Versioning Specification](http://semver.org/): > Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything may change at any time.
Usage
See demo/ for some samples. The results are published to https://relishapp.com/maxlinc/omnimax/docs. The CI server is not currently public.
In order to setup an SDK:
- pip install omnimax
- Create an sdks/ folder.
- Create a folder for each sdk you wish to include.
- Create a bootstrap.sh for each SDK which handles dependency management (e.g.: pip, bundler, npm) or other setup.
- Create a run.sh for each SDK that accepts code via stdin and then executes it within the SDK.
Create tests/documentation:
Create templates/features/*.feature
- Create a [Mako templates](http://www.makotemplates.org/) to generate a Gherkin-style feature file (specifically [Behave](http://pythonhosted.org/behave/)). Currently these variables are available:
- language: will be replaced with the name of the SDK (detected from the folder name)
- tags: adds tags that apply to the feature. Currently just the language name, but tags will be detected from other sources (like features.yaml) in the future.
- solution: this is replaced with the solution code for the SDK.
Adding sample code to create complete a test:
- Create a solutions/ folder within your SDK.
- Create a file based on the test you are implementing. Maintain the same relative path as the feature file, just replacing the file suffix. For example, templates/features/my_feature_group/my_feature.feature may become sdks/my_ruby_framework/solutions/my_feature_groups/my_feature.rb.
Execution
You can perform a few actions via the omnimax-cli.py binary distributed with the python egg. This includes:
- test: merges the templates/samples and uses behave to run the resulting feature files.
- publish: merges the templates/samples and publishes documentation to relishapp.com based on the feature files.
- matrix: generates a matrix from features.yaml to generate a feature matrix comparing the SDKs
generate: merges the templates/samples to BDD files
All of the commands except the generate command merge the templates into a temporary directory which is removed when the command finishes. Generate does not clean up the temporary directory.