h1. YAML2ENV "!https://secure.travis-ci.org/merchii/yaml2env.png!":http://travis-ci.org/merchii/yaml2env

_Stash environment-specific configs in YAML-files and load them into ENV according to best-practices pattern - and auto-detects on-initialization if something is missing (skipping the "scratching the head"-part)._

h2. Motivation

For some rainy day...or next commit.

h2. Frameworks

@Yaml2env@ detects lean defaults for: *"Rack":https://github.com/rack/rack*, *"Rails":https://github.com/rails/rails*, and *"Sinatra":https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra*. Though by setting @Yaml2env.env@ and @Yaml2env.root@ manually you are good with any Ruby-project.

h2. Installation

Add to your @Gemfile@:

<pre>
  gem 'yaml2env'
</pre>

...and @bundle install@.

h2. Usage

To give this some context; this is how we use @Yaml2Env@ to initialize "Hoptoad":http://hoptoadapp.com:

<pre>
  Yaml2Env.load 'config/hoptoad.yml', {'HOPTOAD_API_KEY' => 'api_key'}

  if defined?(HoptoadNotifier)
    HoptoadNotifier.configure do |config|
      config.api_key = ENV['HOPTOAD_API_KEY']
    end
  end
</pre>

...and the corresponding YAML config file:

<pre>
  development:
    api_key: NONE

  staging:
    api_key: 123abc

  production:
    api_key: abc123

  test:
    api_key: NONE
</pre>

...which will yield:

<pre>
  Rails.env = 'development'
  ENV['HOPTOAD_API_KEY'] => 'NONE'

  Rails.env = 'staging'
  ENV['HOPTOAD_API_KEY'] => '123abc'

  Rails.env = 'production'
  ENV['HOPTOAD_API_KEY'] => 'abc123'

  Rails.env = 'test'
  ENV['HOPTOAD_API_KEY'] => 'NONE'

  Rails.env = 'other'
  => "Failed to load required config for environment 'other': /Users/grimen/development/example.com/config/hoptoad.yml"
</pre>

h2. Notes

This gem was developed for our own requirements at *"Merchii":http://github.com/merchii*, so feel free to send pull-requests with enhancements of any kind (features, bug-fixes, documentation, tests, etc.) to make it better or useful for you as well.

h2. License

Released under the MIT license.
Copyright (c) "Merchii":http://github.com/merchii, "Jonas Grimfelt":http://github.com/grimen