Support Ruby script to configure wordmove instead of YAML

[morrislaptop]

Hi,

I like in Capistrano there is deploy.rb, which is a Ruby script so I can set things dynamically. For example I can load my .env file to read the local domain name.

Since the Movefile is a static YAML file, I can't set things dynamically. Is there a possibility for this?

Thanks, Craig

[alessandro-fazzi]

This is an example of what we do in our dev team:

⟩ cat Movefile
local:
  vhost: "http://localhost:8080"
  wordpress_path: "<%= ENV['WORDPRESS_WORKS_PATH'] %>/tessile"

Obsiously the global $WORDPRESS_WORKS_PATH is exported by our dotfiles as per shared practice; but the spot is on: Movefile is not static since you can evaluate ruby code inside it starting from #145

Consider to close the issue if this is what you need :)

Cheers

[morrislaptop]

Oh thanks, I didn't find this in the documentation, it should definitely be added!

[alessandro-fazzi]

@morrislaptop I agree. If you'll have a little time to contribute, please consider to add some documentation on this wiki page

Cheers

[morrislaptop]

@pioneerskies have you ever considered reading the database details from the wp-config.php or using wp cli after connecting to the server instead of having to duplicate these details inside the Movefile?

[alessandro-fazzi]

We do it on wordmove init for the local environment. We are not considering doing it for other env because we consider a little effort to write down those info, we use Movefile also to quickly share access to new developers, we cannot consider to have cli installed on every remote environment, someone does not use a monolithic wp-config.php but splits it up into different files included from the main one (e.g.: in order to manage automatically different environment-based configurations)...well...is a bit messy out there :)

[morrislaptop]

Ok fair point!