Refinery CMS Settings Initializer

An initializer for RefinerySettings that updates settings from a configuration file on Rails start. This can be useful to maintain identical configuration across staging and production environments. This gem is probably more useful for existing apps that integrate with Refinery CMS than for apps that are solely Refinery CMS.

If a setting is managed by the settings initializer, the initializer will overwrite any changes made to the setting from within the Refinery admin console on server restart / re-deploy.

Refinery CMS version 1.0.0. This has not been tested with versions greater than that.

Open up your Gemfile and add at the bottom this line:

gem 'refinerycms-settings-initializer', '~> 0.9'

Now, run bundle install

Next, to install the initializer and stubbed out configuration file, run this generator:

bundle exec rails g refinery:settings_initializer

Finally, update settings in config/refinery/settings.yml that you wish to maintain.

The settings configuration file lives at config/refinery/settings.yml. The configuration follows this format:

scoping:
  setting_name:
    value: *setting_value*
    destroyable: *(optional)*
    ... (additional setting options)
  setting_name_2:
    value: *setting_2_value*

unscoped:
  unscoped_setting_name:
    value: *unscoped_setting_value*

At the top level of the configuration file are scopings (e.g., pages, blog, etc.). For settings that do not have a scoping, place them under unscoped.

Here is an example configuration file. Note that user_image_sizes's value pre-fixes the hash keys with a colon in order to create symbols.

pages:
  use_marketable_urls:
    value: false

unscoped:
  user_image_sizes:
    destroyable: false
    value:
      :large:  "580x580>"
      :medium: "280x280>"
      :small:  "120x120>"