Blinkist::Config
This GEM allows you to access configuration stores with different adapters. Here're some examples of usage:
Using the ENV
# First setup the Config to use the ENV as config store
Diplomat.configure do |config|
config.url = "http://172.17.0.1:8500"
end
Blinkist::Config.env = ENV["RAILS_ENV"]
Blinkist::Config.app_name = "my_nice_app"
Blinkist::Config.adapter_type = :env
Blinkist::Config.error_handler = :strict
my_config_value = Blinkist::Config.get! "some/folder/config"
# This is being translated to ENV["SOME_FOLDER_CONFIG"]
Error handling
When configured with Blinkist::Config.error_handler = :strict
(as recommended)
reading a configuration entry for which the value is missing
(for example missing enviroment variables) will cause
Blinkist::Config::ValueMissingError
to be raised.
There is also an alternative mode Blinkist::Config.error_handler = :heuristic
which
will raise exceptions only when Blinkist::Config.env == "production"
.
This alternative mode is also the default for compatibility.
Having a default value
If you don't want Blinkist::Config.get!
to scream at you for missing
configuration entries then you canprovide a default value as a second
paramter to get!
:
my_config_value = Blinkist::Config.get! "some/folder/config", "default value"
# If ENV["SOME_FOLDER_CONFIG"] is nil, "default value" will be returned
Using Diplomat & Consul
If you want to use Consul's key value store, simply use our diplomat adapter.
The GEM expects consul to listen to http://172.17.0.1:8500
# First setup the Config to use the ENV as config store
Blinkist::Config.env = ENV["RAILS_ENV"]
Blinkist::Config.app_name = "my_nice_app"
Blinkist::Config.adapter_type = ENV["CONSUL_AVAILABLE"] == "true" ? :diplomat : :env
my_config_value = Blinkist::Config.get! "some/folder/config"
# This is will try to get a value from Consul's KV store at "my_nice_app/some/folder/config"
Using Diplomat with a folder scope
# Here we setting a scope outside of the app
my_config_value = Blinkist::Config.get! "another/config", scope: "global"
# This will replace `my_nice_app` with `global` and try to resolve "global/another/config"
# With :env the scope will simply be ignored
Using AWS SSM
If you want to use EC2's key value store SSM, simply use our aws_ssm adapter. It'll automatically try to decrypt all keys.
The GEM expects the code to run in an AWS environment with properly set up IAM.
Blinkist::Config.env = ENV["RAILS_ENV"]
Blinkist::Config.app_name = "my_nice_app"
Blinkist::Config.adapter_type = ENV["SSM_AVAILABLE"] == "true" ? :aws_ssm : :env
my_config_value = Blinkist::Config.get! "some/folder/config"
# This is will try to get a parameter from SSM at "/application/my_nice_app/some/folder/config"
# You can also preload all parameters to avoid later calls to SSM
Blinkist::Config.preload
Blinkist::Config.preload scope: "global" # in case you need also another scope being preloaded
Using SSM with a folder scope
# Here we setting a scope outside of the app
my_config_value = Blinkist::Config.get! "another/config", scope: "global"
# This will replace `my_nice_app` with `global` and try to resolve "/application/global/another/config"
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem "blinkist-config"
Usage
You have to set up the GEM before you can use it. The basic setup requires this
Blinkist::Config.env = "production" || "test" || "development"
Blinkist::Config.app_name = "your_app_name" # Used only with diplomat adapter
Blinkist::Config.adapter_type = :diplomat || :env
It's best to drop a config.rb
into your app and load this file before every other file. In Rails you can link it into your application.rb
require_relative "boot"
require_relative "config"
require "rails"
# ...
Development
You can build this project easily with docker compose.
docker-compose run rake
This will execute rake and run all specs by auto correcting the code with rubocop.
If you're ready to tag a new version, do this
docker-compose run gem bump -t -v major|minor|patch
To deploy to rubygems.org do this then
docker-compose run gem release
You'll have to have proper rights to access rubygems.org
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/blinkist/blinkist-config.
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.