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Evals report

Report built at 2020-03-28 00:28:48 UTC

Built for evals:

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curl

This thing is awesome. Writing down here to note the syntax of how to send a JSON request to a REST API:

curl -u bhipple:$TOKEN -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PATCH -d '{"location":"cmdline"}' "https://api.github.com/user"

Changes the location of the user to "cmdline" using this API.

Some useful REST endpoints on the GitHub API:

Click the merge button:
https://developer.github.com/v3/pulls/#merge-a-pull-request-merge-button

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Kitchen

Kitchen tests a cookbook locally, using a .kitchen.yml file generated when the chef generate cookbook was originally run and then manually updated thereafter.

Once the .kitchen.yml file is up to date, I can run kitchen create (once) to create a VM with Vagrant, then kitchen converge to update that VM as the recipe changes.

If at any point I want to check state manually, use kitchen login.

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Code-like advantages:
 - For loops
 - Fork and join processes
 - Functions with parameters
 - Call other jobs within a workflow script
 - Source control jobs
 - Code review job configuration

Support for standardized Groovy templates that allow groups to write jobs that are only a few lines of tweaking.
 - Can create libraries of helper functions for general use, stored in git