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autoconfig in an automated way to create flexible configuration structures.

Since version 2.0.0 autoconfig relies on heirarchical_config for the strategy for configuring an application in a static, declarative, robust, and intuitive way.

1. require 'autoconfig'
2. profit!

Lets say you have application.yml in your config folder:

defaults:
  web:
    hostname: 'localhost'
  noreply: noreply@myhost.com
  support_email: support@myhost.com
production:
   web:
     hostname: "the.production.com"

After requiring 'autoconfig' you should expect ApplicationConfig structure that will contain all the information. In production environment ApplicationConfig.web.hostname call will return the.production.com.

Check it out under test/config/one

defaults:
  one: !REQUIRED
  two: two
  three: three
  cache_classes: true
  tree1:
    tree2: hey
    tree3:
      tree4: blah

defaults[test,cucumber,development]:
  cache_classes: false

defaults[test,cucumber]:
  one: one

development:
  one: yup

test:
  something: hello
  tree1:
    tree3:
      tree4: bleh

production:
  three: five

Autoconfig can support:

• specifying which keys are required via !REQUIRED yaml type
• environment specific defaults shared across some environments
• deep nested structures

By default, it will look at config directory of your project and transfer most of your .yml files (it ignores database ones). However, you have full control over where it needs to look and what it needs to convert. Here is a set of environment flags you could use:

• AUTOCONFIG_ROOT - allows setting of the application root. By default it will try to use APP_ROOT, rails root (if rails app) or pwd directory.
• AUTOCONFIG_PATERN - used to construct a path to your configuration files. By default it is set to config/*.yml
• AUTOCONFIG_PATH - allows setting a path to your configuration files. If set autoconfig will ignore patern and root, otherwise it look at root and patern to get path to your files.
• AUTOCONFIG_ENV - allows setting environment in which autoconfig runs, by default it will try to use APP_ENV, Rails.env(if rails app) or development (in that order)
• AUTOCONFIG_IGNORE - when set it will not create configs for files in the ignore. When not set it will just ignore database.yml. Takes a whitespace separated list. Ex: 'cucumber cache'