WIP: Starting on concepts.

[redvers]

Initial commit will fail CI as the exercise isn't there yet.

[ee7]

(Came here from Slack).

The configlet lint output of:

The Concept Exercise lucians-luscious-lasagna has basics-1 in its concepts, which is not a slug in the top-level concepts array:
/home/runner/work/pony/pony/config.json

is trying to point out that the exercise claims to teach the basics-1 concept, but that concept does not exist here:

pony/config.json

Line 186 in 25e47b7

"concepts": [],

To resolve that output, we need to add something like:

  "concepts": [
    {
      "uuid": "753569f6-14f1-4e9d-ab70-db4819a17162",
      "slug": "basics-1",
      "name": "Basics 1"
    }

(Although I think we generally just call it basics, and then have stuff that doesn't fit in "basics" as separate concepts).

Then re-running configlet lint will produce some new errors complaining that the concept's files don't exist.

See e.g.

• The config.json for a launched track, like Elixir's
• The docs here: https://exercism.org/docs/building/tracks/concepts

[redvers]

Ah ha! I apparently had concept at the top level twice. I had an entry that matches (I think) what you describe at line 11, and then undefined it at line 186.

So I just pushed a change which removed line 186 and… it still fails with the same response.

This is what it looks like:

https://github.com/redvers/pony/blob/5cbf3657a8210540772b396d6102aecfafec5132/config.json#L11-L17

I don't see how it looks different to your example.

(edit: I re-ran the linter in debug and the error changed state to the state you said would be next up - thank you)

[ee7]

Ah. I didn't catch that concepts was defined twice. Sorry.

A duplicate key name is valid JSON, but generally recommended against. For one thing, it's less portable, as different parsers handle it differently. But it's common to silently use the last value, and that's what the Ruby library that powers the Exercism website does.

configlet lint also currently silently uses the last value. I have proposed that it should indicate an error when there is a duplicate key. I'm tracking this in exercism/configlet#347.

But it turns out that we don't hit this problem much in practice, so this hasn't been a priority.

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In the future, configlet lint should probably issue warnings rather than errors for missing files when the track isn't launched, or when concept exercises aren't enabled. The status quo encourages adding empty files to appease the linter, but this makes it harder to keep track of files that still need to be written.

[ErikSchierboom]

Could you rename the concept to basics? There should really only be one basics concept. Any other concepts should be "real" concepts (like numbers, booleans, etc.)