EnvHelpers

A set of helpers to improve ENV functionality

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'env_helpers'

If you'd like to add the functionality directly to ENV you can add:

gem 'env_helpers', require: 'env_helpers/ext/env'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install env_helpers

You can find the on rubdoc.info.

EnvHelpers supplies the following helper methods:

• equal?
• num
• int
• array
• json
• bool
• true?
• false?

require `env_helpers`

EnvHelpers.int('TEST_INT')

If you used the ENV extension, you can call any of these methods directly on ENV.

require `env_helpers/ext/env`

ENV.int('TEST_INT')

By default EnvHelpers swallows JSON::ParserError on invalid JSON when using .json. To change this behavior set rescue_json to be false.

EnvHelpers.rescue_json = false

EnvHelpers does a case insensitive check for boolean values.

True

• true
• t
• 1

False

• false
• f
• 0

To modify EnvHelpers checks for true and false, a simple monkey patch will take care of things:

module EnvHelpers
  class << self
    def true_value?(val)
      val == 'false'
    end

    def false_value?(val)
      val == 'true'
    end
  end
end

The methods true_value? and false_value? are meant to be modified in this manner to customize functionality.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run ./run_specs to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Since parts of the functionality is optional and modifies other classes and objects, the specs aren't meant to be run all at the same time. This is to isolate the environment the tests are executing in.

To run the tests:

./run_specs

Tests are currently run against the following Ruby version:

• 2.5
• 2.4
• 2.3
• 2.2

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Latermedia/env_helpers. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the EnvHelpers project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.