An utility to manage YAML files and ensure their lines is in a predictable order.
This is mainly indended to manage Hiera files for Puppet and translation files in Ruby on Rails applications.
Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:
$ bundle add yaml-sort
If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:
$ gem install yaml-sort
Usage: yaml-sort [options] [filename]
-i, --in-place Update files in-place
-l, --lint Ensure files content is sorted as expected
Add this to your Rakefile:
require "yaml/sort/tasks/puppet"
Rake::Task[:lint].enhance ["lint:hiera_data_ordering"]This provide two new targets:
rake lint:hiera_data_ordering # Check Hiera data content ordering
rake reorder_hiera_data # Reorder Hiera data in-place
Add this to your Rakefile:
require "yaml/sort/tasks/rails"
Rake::Task[:test].enhance ["test:translations_ordering"]This provide two new targets:
rake reorder_translations # Reorder translations in-place
rake test:translations_ordering # Check translations content ordering
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec 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 the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/smortex/yaml-sort. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
Everyone interacting in the yaml-sort project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.