Knowledge

Configuration variables are a project's knowledge. This gem is here to help your projects learn what they need to work properly.

Disclaimer

The full documentation is currently being written. You should be able to find a better documentation in a few hours.

Waiting for the full documentation, you can have a look at the code which is already well-documented.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'knowledge'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install knowledge

Usage

Documentation is in progress. Please have a look to the wiki.

Using default stuff:

knowledge = Knowledge::Learner.new

knowledge.use(name: :default)
knowledge.variables = { key: :value }
knowledge.gather!

Knowledge::Configuration.key # => "value"

Using your own setter:

#
# === Description ===
#
# Sets config variables in Rails.application.config
#
# === Usage ===
#
# @example:
#   setter = MyCustomRailsSetter.new
#   setter.set(name: :foo, value: :bar)
#
#   Rails.application.config.foo # => "bar"
#
class MyCustomRailsSetter
    #
    # === Description ===
    #
    # Sets config variables in the right place.
    #
    # === Usage ===
    #
    # See the same section in the class description.
    #
    # === Attributes ===
    #
    # @option [String | Symbol] :name
    # @option [Any] :value
    #
    def set(name:, value:)
        Rails.application.config.public_send("#{name}=", value)
    end
end

knowledge = Knowledge::Learner.new

knowledge.setter = MyCustomRailsSetter.new
knowledge.use(name: :default)
knowledge.variables = { key: :value }
knowledge.gather!

Rails.application.config.key # => "value"

Development

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.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/knowledge-ruby/knowledge. 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.

Code of Conduct

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

Licensing

This project is licensed under GPLv3+.

You can find it in LICENSE.md file.