Update Your Software Development Productivity With The ./get-up-to-date Script

Photo by Fernando Hernandez on Unsplash. Let’s update our productivity instead of updating our software packages again and again…

“Ever thought of updating yourself instead of updating your mobile” — Yash Gupta

Whenever I clone a new public repository and start the setup process, I think about the concept of the .go concept. I now start every new public repository I release with a “./go” script, which makes the setup process for everyone as simple as typing “./go”. However recently, I started to think that equally the ./get-up-to-date script should be part of every repository as well!

A ./go script is an amazing practice, but for a tech team to get into it, well it needs practice! It means using ./go scripts in lots of repositories. And that again means lots of updating, and lots of effort, to get lots of additional productivity.

If only we could do that automatically…… Enter the ./get-up-to-date script.

The ./go Script

The ./go script is a concept I learned from the technology consultancy ThoughtWorks. As Peter Hodgson puts it…

“The ./go script becomes the only place anyone ever needs to look when they want to accomplish some dev task, meaning team members no longer need to remember things like which task is in rake, which is a rails command, and…