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63 lines
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# Minion
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Minion is a framework for running tasks via the CLI.
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The system is inspired by ruckusing, which had a nice system for defining tasks but lacked the desired flexibility for kohana integration.
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## Getting Started
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First off, download and enable the module in your bootstrap
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Then copy the bash script `minion` alongside your index.php (most likely the webroot).
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If you'd rather the executable be in a different location to index.php then simply modify the bash script to point to index.php.
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You can then run minion like so:
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./minion {task}
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To view a list of minion tasks, run minion without any parameters, or with the `--help` option
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./minion
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./minion --help
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To view help for a specific minion task run
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./minion {task} --help
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For security reasons Minion will only run from the cli. Attempting to access it over http will cause
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a `Kohana_Exception` to be thrown.
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If you're unable to use the binary file for whatever reason then simply replace `./minion {task}` in the above
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examples with
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php index.php --uri=minion --task={task}
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## Writing your own tasks
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All minion tasks must be located in `classes/task/`. They can be in any module, thus allowing you to
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ship custom minion tasks with your own module / product.
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Each task must extend the abstract class `Minion_Task` and implement `Minion_Task::_execute()`.
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See `Minion_Task` for more details.
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## Documentation
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Code should be commented well enough not to need documentation, and minion can extract a class' doccomment to use
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as documentation on the cli.
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## Testing
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This module is unittested using the [unittest module](http://github.com/kohana/unittest).
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You can use the `minion` group to only run minion tests.
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i.e.
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phpunit --group minion
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Feel free to contribute tests(!), they can be found in the `tests/minion` directory. :)
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## License
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This is licensed under the [same license as Kohana](http://kohanaframework.org/license).
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