Introduction

Installing sam

To use sam, apart from a working rock, you need git. Also, you have to create a special directory that is writable for you, which will later contain all ooc packages cloned from their git repositories. This directory is called the ooc library path – you also have to specify its location in the special OOC_LIBS environment variable. On most unixes, you can do that like this:

mkdir ~/development/ooc
export OOC_LIBS=~/development/ooc

As a first step, you can use git to clone sam itself. You should clone sam into a subdirectory of the newly created directory. Since sam does not have any dependencies apart from rock, you can just go ahead and compile it from the usefile:

cd $OOC_LIBS
git clone https://github.com/ooc-lang/sam.git
cd sam/
rock -v sam.use

This should produce a sam executable. Just add it to the path:

export PATH=$PATH:$OOC_LIBS/sam

You should now be able to invoke sam just by typing

sam

When invoked without arguments, sam displays its version and a short usage guide.

Updating sam

sam has a very simple update mechanism for both itself and its grimoire.

When running:

sam update

sam will attempt to find its repository, pull it, and recompile itself. Should anything go wrong and you end up with a broken build of sam, you can always go into the directory yourself, clean with rock -x, switch to whichever commit last worked for you and run rock -v sam.use again.

Since formulas (ooc libraries you can install with sam) are just YAML files in a folder of sam’s repo, pulling the repo from git updates all formula definitions at the same time. However, it doesn’t fetch them until sam get is ran in a project that depends on them.