[ENHANCEMENT] Railtie for configuration

[alex-bezek]

Hello,

I work at a company that has been consuming the validic api directly through our current application. We are starting a new Rails app and would like to continue validic integration.

Currently, this gem supports being setup via an initializer. For all of our service client gems, we build them with Railties and support loading configurations from yml files instead. This allows us to maintain different access tokens per environment, and also allows us to store these secrets in a secret chef repo, and then our chef deployment cook books can write to the yml file (where writing to an intializer ruby file is can be less of a standard format and therefore harder). We also allow the railtie to provide configuration hooks for rails specific things such as configuring your Rails Cache method.

Let me know if you have any suggestions, better ideas, or if this seems like a Pull Request you would be interested in accepting.

Thanks for your time,
Alex

[allcentury]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for writing us and for the enhancement request. What you're asking for makes sense but it might make more sense as a validic-rails specific gem, that way we don't have to couple Rails to this library.

We'd be interested to see what a PR for this would look like though so feel free to submit it here and we can port it over to a new repository if that's the direction we decide to go.

Anthony

[alex-bezek]

Hello,

Thanks for the response. To avoid coupling our ruby service client gems with Rails, we typically add a Rails folder which contains a railtie, and then in your primary file (such as client.rb in this gem's case since it requires all the other files) you require the railtie if in the context of a rails app using
require 'validic/rails/railtie.rb' if defined? ::Rails
For a simple case like this, the railtie would load a validic.yml config file, and use the values to call the initializer this gem has outlined in the readme. We usually try to use the rails .config_for method or something similar that parses ERB so we can inject our secrets/keys via environment variables (working towards containerized deployments).

This could all still be pulled out into its own validic-rails gem if that still sounds like the best idea.

Thanks,
Alex Bezek