Configature

Configuature is a tool to assist in creating config files from templates.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'configature'

And then execute:

bundle
bundle binstubs configature

Or install it yourself as:

gem install configature

Configuature expects a config/ directory that contains one or more files with the file extension .example, as in database.yml.example. Any files of that form found will be copied to their corresponding name minus the .example extension if no such file exists.

This is done with the command:

bin/config

Where files already exist these are not touched, but are noted in the output as being "present".

The opposite step is to remove these files:

bin/config clean

Keep in mind this may remove important credentials so this should be done carefully if and only if necessary.

Most applications should have a configuration definition like this where one or more namespace is defined where configuration information is stored:

class MyConfig < Configature::Config
  namespace :example do
    argument default: 'value'
  end
end

In this case a single namespace is defined. When instantiated the configuration values can be read:

config = MyConfig.new
config.example.argument
# => 'value'

This can also be accessed through a factory method that provides convenient defaults:

Config.example.argument
# => 'value'

In most cases this can be adequate. The MyConfig.new approach allows specifying which config file to load and which environment to read from, something that may be important in some situations.

The default is to load from ENV, the main environment, and config/ relative to Rails.root if Rails is defined.

This value can be overridden with the environment variable EXAMPLE_ARGUMENT or in a config file config/example.yml under the argument: key.

The location of the config file for a namespace can be overridden with the config_dir directive:

class MyConfig < Configature::Config
  namespace :example do
    self.config_dir = File.expand_path('../conf', __dir__)

    argument default: 'value'
  end
end

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the Configature project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.