Hooker¶ ↑

• github.com/dekellum/hooker

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Hooker provides a simple registry of hooks or extension points, enabling decoupled run time configuration in terse but straight ruby syntax. Inspiration includes Emacs Hook Functions and other ruby-based configuration files.

• Hook Procs may be added by the configuration source in any order.

• Hook Procs may be chained and combined via various conventions: Hooker.apply, Hooker.inject, Hooker.merge.

• Hook Procs are executed only when applied by the extended application. Thus a single configuration source may include hook Procs that are left un-executed in certain contexts. This is useful when configuring across several different (contextually loaded) modules from one source.

• Optional or implicit scoping of keys, providing a two level Hook [:scope, :key] hierarchy. The default scope is :default.

• Optional Hooker.log_with extension point

• Can check and list hooks that were not applied, including the call site of where added, allowing you to test your configurations and avoid typos.

• Thread safe (though you should strive to complete all configurable bootstrapping in the main thread).

Lets say an application has a ‘Job’ it would like to support configuration hooks on. First arrange for any number of configuration sources to be loaded via Hooker.load_file. Then apply any loaded hook procs to an instance of your Job, like so:

require 'hooker'

Hooker.load_file( "config.rb" ) if File.exist?( "config.rb" )
job = Hooker.apply( :job, Job.new )

You could also use Hooker.register_config with an OptionParser to support a -c/--config FILE flag for specifying the configuration source.

If Job is to be configured via setters, then the configuration source might look like this:

Hooker.with do |h|
  h.setup_job do |j|
    j.workers = 3
    j.timeout = 10 * 60 #seconds
  end
end

Alternatively, if Job takes a Hash on construction for configuration, use Hooker.merge like so:

opts = Hooker.merge( :job, { workers: 2 } ) #defaults
job = Job.new( opts )

…and Hash syntax in the configuration source. Note that unlike JSON or YAML, the configuration remains fully interpreted for greater expressiveness, for example sharing variables across different configured objects:

Hooker.with do |h|
  cpus = 3

  h.setup_job do
    { workers: cpus + 1,
      timeout: 10 * 60 }
  end

  h.setup_connection_pool do
    { size: cpus }
  end
end

Hooker can be yielded to the configuration source via an alternative Module.method name, to fully encapsulate its use:

class Chaplain
  def self.configure( &block )
    Hooker.with( :church, &block )
  end
end

…supports the configuration source:

Chaplain.configure do |c|
  c.setup_job do |j|
    j.workers = 3
    j.timeout = 10 * 60 #seconds
  end
end

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