homebrew cask : creating a new cask

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A new version of https://nteract.io/ is out, I will try today to push that new infomation to http://caskroom.io/ by creating a new cask for this application. I will base things on this previous contribution where I was simply editing an existing cask.

  • getting the token

    "$(brew --repository)/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/developer/bin/generate_cask_token" '/Applications/nteract.app'

  • set-up variables

    cd "$(brew --prefix)"/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask
github_user='laurentperrinet'
project='nteract'
git remote -v

  • creating a new branch for his project

    git branches
git remote add $github_user https://github.com/$github_user/homebrew-cask
git checkout -b $project

  • finding my information and feeding to homebrew

    cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/nteract/nteract/releases/download/v0.0.14/nteract-0.0.14.dmg
sha256sum nteract-0.0.14.dmg | pbcopy
appcast_url='https://github.com/nteract/nteract/releases.atom'
curl --compressed --location --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.152 Safari/537.36' "{{appcast_url}}" | /usr/bin/sed 's|<pubDate>[^<]*</pubDate>||g' | shasum --algorithm 256
brew cask edit $project

  • testing with homebrew:

    brew cask install $project
brew cask audit $project  --download

  • publishing results

    git status
git add Casks/"$project".rb
git commit -am"adding nteract v0.0.14"
git push $github_user $project

  • confirm the pull request

    open https://github.com/$github_user/homebrew-cask

  • come back to the master branch

    git checkout master

  • in the meanwhile, the change has been merged

  • such that now you can simply install nteract using

    brew cask install nteract

Happy hacking!