# I have a penchant for setting up all my projects so they work the same. I like to do these things in all my projects: * Have all my tests run before committing. I don't like buying ice cream for the team on test failures, and setting up internal CI for smaller projects is a pain. * If I'm developing gems alongside this project, I use a `Gemfile.penchant` to get around the "one gem, one source" issue in current versions of Bundler. * I can also factor out and simplify a lot of my Gemfile settings. * If I'm moving to different machines or (heaven forbid!) having other developers work on the project, I want to make getting all those local gems as easy as possible. This gem makes that easier! ## What's it do? Installs a bunch of scripts into the `scripts` directory of your project: * `gemfile` which switches between `Gemfile.penchant` environments * `install-git-hooks` which will do just what it says * `hooks`, several git hooks that the prior script symlinks into .git/hooks for you * `initialize-environment`, which bootstraps your local environment so you can get up and running ## Gemfile.penchant?! Yeah, it's a `Gemfile` with some extras: ``` ruby # Gemfile.penchant source :rubygems gem 'rails', '3.2.3' # expands to: # # gem 'rake' # gem 'nokogiri' # gem 'rack-rewrite' gems 'rake', 'nokogiri', 'rack-rewrite' # define custom gem properties that get expanded to ones bundler understands property :github, :git => 'git://github.com/$1/%s.git' # values to the key are [ value ].flatten-ed and the $s are replaced on the fly, # with $1 being the first parameter given # set up defaults for all gems in a particular environment defaults_for env(:local), :path => '../%s' # the %s is the name of the gem no_deployment do group :development, :test do gem 'rspec', '~> 2.6.0' dev_gems = %w{flowerbox guard-flowerbox} # set up defaults for certain gems that are probably being used in envs defaults_for dev_gems, :require => nil env :local do # expands to: # # gem 'flowerbox', :path => '../flowerbox', :require => nil # gem 'guard-flowerbox', :path => '../guard-flowerbox', :require => nil gems dev_gems end env :remote do # expands to: # # gem 'flowerbox', :git => 'git://github.com/johnbintz/flowerbox.git', :require => nil # gem 'guard-flowerbox', :git => 'git://github.com/johnbintz/guard-flowerbox.git', :require => nil gems dev_gems, :github => 'johnbintz' end # only expanded on Mac OS X os :darwin do gem 'rb-fsevent' end # only expanded on Linux os :linux do gems 'rb-inotify', 'ffi' end end end ``` Use `script/gemfile local` to get at the local ones, and `script/gemfile remote` to get at the remote ones. It then runs `bundle install`. You can also run `penchant gemfile ENV`. Just straight `penchant gemfile` will rebuild the `Gemfile` from `Gemfile.penchant` for whatever environment the `Gemfile` is currently using. ### Deployment mode Use `no_deployment` blocks to indicate gems that shouldn't even appear in `Gemfiles` destined for remote servers. *Very* helpful when you have OS-specific gems and are developing on one platform and deploying on another, or if you don't want to deal with the dependencies for your testing frameworks: ``` ruby gem 'rails' no_deployment do os :darwin do gems 'growl_notify', 'growl', 'rb-fsevent' end os :linux do gem 'libnotify', :require => nil end group :test do # ... all your testing libraries you won't need on the deployed end ... end end ``` Run `penchant gemfile ENV --deployment` to get this behavior. This is run by default when the pre-commit git hook runs, but only after the default Rake task passes. #### Won't this change the project dependencies?! Probably not. You probably have the "main" gems in your project locked to a version of Rails or Sinatra or something else, and all of the other gems for authentication, queue processing, etc. are dependent on that framework. Ripping out your testing framework and deployment helpers really shouldn't be changing the main versions of your application gems. It WORKSFORME and YMMV. ### Getting local gems all set up `penchant bootstrap` will go through and find all git repo references in your `Gemfile.penchant` and will download them to the specified directory (by default, `..`). This means blocks like this will work as expected when you `penchant bootstrap` and then `penchant gemfile local`: ``` ruby env :local do gem 'my-gem', :path => '../%s' end env :remote do gem 'my-gem', :git => 'git://github.com/johnbintz/%s.git' end ``` Note that this just does a quick `git clone`, so if your project is already in there in a different state, nothing "happens" except that git fails. ## initialize-environment Get new developers up to speed fast! `script/initialize-environment` does the following when run: * Check out any remote repos found in `Gemfile.penchant` to the same directory where your current project lives. That way, you can have your `Gemfile.penchant` set up as above and everything works cleanly. * Runs `script/gemfile remote` to set your project to using remote repositories. * Runs `rake bootstrap` for the project if it exists. ### After-`gemfile` hooks? Drop a file called `.penchant` in your project directory. It'll get executed every time you switch environments using Penchant. I use it to tell my Hydra clients to sync and update their Gemfiles, too: ``` ruby # rake knows if you need "bundle exec" or not. rake "hydra:sync hydra:remote:bundle" ``` ### What environment are you currently using in that Gemfile? `head -n 1` that puppy, or `penchant gemfile-env`. ## git hook?! It runs `penchant gemfile remote` then runs `bundle exec rake`. Make sure your default Rake task for the project runs your tests and performs any other magic necessary before each commit. Your re-environmented Gemfile and Gemfile.lock will be added to your commit if they've changed. ### Skipping all that Rake falderal? Do it Travis CI style: stick `[ci skip]` in your commit message. That's why the meat of the git hooks resides in `commit-msg` and not `pre-commit`: you need the commit message before you can determine if the tests should be run based on the commit message. Weird, I know. ## How?! * No RVM? `gem install penchant` * RVM? `rvm gemset use global && gem install penchant && rvm gemset use default` * `cd` to your project directory And then one of the following: * `penchant install` for a new project (`--dir=WHEREVER` will install the scripts to a directory other than `$PWD/scripts`) * `penchant update` to update the installation (`--dir=WHEVEVER` works here, too) * `penchant convert` for an existing project (`--dir=WHEVEVER` works here, too)