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Confmake makes configuration files.

Its a command line tool which procedurally generates configuration files from a template.

So far, you can use

  1. Shell environment variables
  2. Property Lists

Usage

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Requirements

Requires ruby version >= 2.0

Developments

Please feel free to fork and whatnot...

Get the dependencies bundle install

Run the tests rake spec rake features

Thoughts?

The point?

I had the need to procedurally create configuration files when automating the deployment of particular services.

Why not just use sed and replace in some kind of bash script?

I originally used this approach but the script grew unwieldy, maybe I don't do good bash or maybe its just because of lack of testing. Whilst the benefit of a bash script is that it will run as-is on many systems, I find it better to treat a tool like this as software and therefore use the ecosystems already available to manage dependencies and deploy. I also enjoy programming in ruby :)

Tasks to do and improvement ideas

  • ~~error message when config contains env variable that doesnt exist~~ Version 0.0.2
  • ~~Read config from properties file~~ Version 0.0.4
  • ~~verbose command~~ Version 0.0.5
  • ~~YAML~~ Version 0.1.0

Roadmap

  • JSON Version 0.1.1

  • proper logging! 0.1.2

  • improve verbose messages

  • summary of what will change? dry-run maybe?

  • diff on what has changed in a config if overwriting?