Short form: What's the best way to customize my environment so "rails new ..." uses a custom template rather than the default?
Long form: Every time I create a new Rails project, the first thing I do is edit config/database.yml so the lines that previously read:
development: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 reconnect: false database: myapp_development pool: 5 username: root password: socket: /tmp/mysql.sock
instead read:
development: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 reconnect: false database: myapp_development pool: 5 username: <%= ENV['MYSQL_USERID'] || "root" %> password: <%= ENV['MYSQL_PASSWORD'] || "" %> socket: <%= ENV['MYSQL_SOCKET'] || "/tmp/mysql.sock" %>
... that is, it picks up the values for username, password and socket from environment variables I've set.
I *could* edit $RAILS/generators/...mysql.yml directly, but there are two problems: first, it's a bad idea to modify core files, and second, it pre-expands the .yml code so my username and password are exposed in the resulting file. Not what I want...
Another approach would be to write a rake task to post-facto modify the file, but that seems a bit clunky.
WWDHD? (What would David Heinemeier do?)
- ff
