Recipes

A recipe is a set of instructions executed sequentially written in a YAML file that let you build complex process to automatize tasks or extend your PHP applications. Recipes are made up of one or more steps which in turn are made up of actions.

Steps

A step is a building block with a set of actions that will be performed. Steps could be executed several times if they have a loop sentence inside (see loops).

Actions

Actions are the smallest building block and each one has a module method that will be invoked when the action is run. The goal of each action is to execute a module, with very specific arguments. Variables can be used in arguments to modules. You can create your own modules or use modules shared through Packagist. To use an action in a recipe you must include it in a step. Similar to steps, actions could be executed several times if they include a sentence loop.

Blocs

Blocs are executable constructions that admit conditionals when and could be executed several times using loops loop. Steps and actions are blocks.

# ...
loop: 1..10
when: php_version == 7.3

Status of a block

When a block is executed, its status is one of the following:

• Successfull: When all iterations a block are success
• Skipped: When all iterations of a block are skipped
• Failed: When at least there is a iteration failed

Recipe file example

name: "My first recipe"
# Extra information for the recipe
extra:
  rr:
    # Modules are Composer packages
    packages:
      "recipe-runner/io-module": "1.0.x-dev"
steps:
  - actions:
      # The action "Greeting" runs the method "write" from IO module to
      # print a message to the output
      - name: "Greeting"
          write: "Hi user"
          # The action will be executed twice
          loop: 1..2
          # The action only be executed on Linux OS
          when: os_family == "Linux"