BootStraps: now with less crapyness

I’ve been getting rid of my TODO’s in my mini bootstrapping library whilst focusing on my Sinatra app and the config file looks a lot less crappy now. It even looks a tiny bit awesome. Its doesn’t do everything (still need to put my app/* directories in here) but it serves my purposes and remains flexible:

BootStraps::Initializer.configure do |config|

  #Use the vendor directory
  config.vendored = true
  config.default_env = 'production'

  #require each gem
  config.gem 'activerecord'
  config.gem 'sinatra'
  config.gem 'json'
  config.gem 'haml'
  config.gem 'twitter'
  config.gem 'nakajima-rack-flash'

  #action taken when config.db.connect is called
  config.db.connect_action do
    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
        :adapter => 'sqlite3',
        :dbfile =>  File.join(config.root, 'db', "#{config.env}.sqlite3" ))

  end

  #Sinatra settings
  config.framework.set :environment, config.env
  config.framework.set :views, File.join('app','views')
  config.framework.set :server, 'mongrel'
  config.framework.use Rack::Session::Cookie, :domain => 'localhost'
  config.framework.use Rack::Flash, :sweep => true
end

No more string literal library names (holy cow that was bad), a nice flexible block for defining the db connection code, and little method missing spice to run whatever methods on whatever framework I’m using.

Using the config has been simplified as well:

require 'config/bootstraps'

module MyMod
  class MyApp < Sinatra::Base

    configure do
      Straps.db.connect
      Straps.framework.apply_settings!(self)
    end

  end
end

Thinking about rolling it into a gem just to save myself time down the road.