geppetto

#Geppetto

SOA local development made easy.

Geppetto makes it simple to script the launch of all your local services with the desired environment variables

##Contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • Common Globals

##Installation

npm install -g geppetto

##Usage

geppetto config.json

Define a json configuration file with the processes that you want running. You can define a:

• command (required) The command being called to launch the process
• dir (optional) The directory you want the process to be launched from. dir supports $ENVIRONMENT variable expansion.
• env (optional) A hash of process specific environment variables you want the process to have
• install (optional) A sub level of options to perform to install the necessary files (if dir is nonexistent)for the process (install overrides git option)
• postinstall (optional) A sub level of options to perform after installation
• git (optional) If dir is nonexistent it will be cloned down locally
• postgit (optional) Sub level options to run on directory after cloning down with git

{
  "api_server": {
    "dir": "$PWD/node-server",
    "install": {
      "command": "curl",
      "arguments": ["-O", "https://example.com/api_server"]
    },
    "postinstall": {
      "command": "npm",
      "arguments": ["install"]
    },
    "command": "node",
    "arguments": [ "app.js" ],
    "env": {
      "PORT": "1337"
    },
  },
  "app_server": {
    "git": "https://github.com/me/app_server",
    "postgit": {
      "command": "bundle",
      "arguments": ["install"]
    },
    "command": "rails",
    "arguments": ["s"],
    "env": {
      "API_URL": "http://localhost:1337"
    }
  }
}

###Common Globals There are also top level keys that can be defined to set global common options:

• _env Common environment variables for each service

{
  "_env": {"LEVEL": "1", "BOSS": "SnapBack"},
  "game": {"command": "cat", "arguments": ["index.js"], "env": {"LEVEL": "2"}}
}
//game env will be `{LEVEL: 2, BOSS: "SnapBack"}

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