# p4util - common p4 scripting tasks for ruby projects When building any kind of tool that uses Perforce underneath, it's pretty common to want a few capabilities: * Download different versions of p4, p4d, and the C++ API * Initialize up a consistent starting environment of p4d This is a binary script and set of rake tasks that allows this. ## Usage After installation, `p4util help` will list available commands, and `p4util help [command]` will list instructions. Some commands, like `p4util init` are quite extensive, and should be used as the reference. ## Installation Add this line to your application's Gemfile: ```ruby gem 'p4util' ``` And then execute: $ bundle Or install it yourself as: $ gem install p4util ## Changes * 0.3.1: Update p4ruby dependency to 2015.1.0 * 0.3.0: Added the ability to initialize triggers * 0.2.0: Added the ability to create 'groups' * 0.1.2: Added depot model and the ability to customize the view for changelists * 0.1.1: Added documentation for Rake tasks and version string output * 0.1.0: Added `p4util init` command that can do some common p4d configurations, like setting unicode and security settings, along with users and basic adds and edits of files. * 0.0.1-0.0.3: Basic download capabilities