namespace :gitlab do desc "GitLab | Update gitignore" task :update_gitignore do unless clone_gitignores puts "Cloning the gitignores failed".red return end remove_unneeded_files(gitignore_directory) remove_unneeded_files(global_directory) puts "Done".green end def clone_gitignores FileUtils.rm_rf(gitignore_directory) if Dir.exist?(gitignore_directory) FileUtils.cd vendor_directory system('git clone --depth=1 --branch=master https://github.com/github/gitignore.git') end # Retain only certain files: # - The LICENSE, because we have to # - The sub dir global # - The gitignores themself # - Dir.entires returns also the entries '.' and '..' def remove_unneeded_files(path) Dir.foreach(path) do |file| FileUtils.rm_rf(File.join(path, file)) unless file =~ /(\.{1,2}|LICENSE|Global|\.gitignore)\z/ end end private def vendor_directory Rails.root.join('vendor') end def gitignore_directory File.join(vendor_directory, 'gitignore') end def global_directory File.join(gitignore_directory, 'Global') end end