ensure grunt.config is initialized.

[colwilson]

I had real problems using grunt-environment with this module because it complained that grunt.config was null.

This gets around that problem.

[jgallen23]

What is grunt.config used for?

[colwilson]

They (and many others) use it to access the data backend (your object) like this

grunt.config.get('environment.environments').forEach(function(env) {

[colwilson]

You may be interested

https://github.com/logankoester/grunt-environment/pull/2#issuecomment-30716251

On 17 December 2013 00:19, Greg notifications@github.com wrote:

What is grunt.config used for?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/firstandthird/load-grunt-config/pull/22#issuecomment-30715306 .

Col Wilson

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[colwilson]

Sorry, that's a lot of nonsense "Grunt.initConfighttp://gruntjs.com/api/grunt#grunt.initconfig

• This method is an alias for the grunt.config.init http://gruntjs.com/grunt.config#grunt.config.init method."

There is something wrong, but I seem to have forgotten how I fixed it...

On 17 December 2013 00:19, Greg notifications@github.com wrote:

What is grunt.config used for?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/firstandthird/load-grunt-config/pull/22#issuecomment-30715306 .

Col Wilson

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[jgallen23]

So is everything working as expected?

[colwilson]

no.

if you have a package.json of

{
  "name": "lgc-example1",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "BSD-2-Clause",
  "devDependencies": {
    "load-grunt-config": "~0.7.0",
    "grunt": "~0.4.2",
    "grunt-environment": "~0.3.1"
  }
}

and a Gruntfile.coffee of

module.exports = (grunt) ->
  require("load-grunt-config") grunt,
    config:
      thing: "thingy"
      number: 42

      environment:
        default: "development"
        environments: ["development", "production"]
        version: ->
          grunt.file.readJSON("package.json")["version"]

and run

grunt -v

or even

grunt -v environment:development

then it fails because grunt.config is not initialized properly.

Now, I know that it's actually grunt-environment where the code fails, but I think it is asking for something which is quite reasonable, i.e. an initialized grunt.config.

[jgallen23]

take a look at https://github.com/firstandthird/load-grunt-config/blob/master/lib/load-config.js#L42

I am calling grunt.initConfig(object);

[colwilson]

I know, I've raised an issue with grunt-environment which explains what was going on.

https://github.com/logankoester/grunt-environment/issues/3

You can close this now thanks.

On 17 December 2013 16:44, Greg notifications@github.com wrote:

take a look at https://github.com/firstandthird/load-grunt-config/blob/master/lib/load-config.js#L42

I am calling grunt.initConfig(object);

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/firstandthird/load-grunt-config/pull/22#issuecomment-30767351 .

Col Wilson

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[jgallen23]

oh. I get it now. I can just move the initConfig to happen before loading the tasks. That will solve it. I'll do that later today