Often when working on projects I find it's common to do certain
initializations when Julia starts. This generally includes setting certain
configurations, declaring environment variables, setting up connections etc
before my code begins to run. Basically, something that looks like this:
if isfile("some_initializer.jl")
# ...
end
Wouldn't it be more convenient to have a convention where Julia checks for
the existence of a runtime configuration .juliarc.jl file in the working
directory and executes it at startup if it exists? Other languages and
interactive environments such as R (.Rprofile) have implemented this
capability and can be very useful.
It's not terribly difficult to implement, either. The following code
recursively traverses up the directory structure calling any .juliarc.jl
configuration files it encounters in reverse order:
function loadrc(path::String)
if (path == ENV["HOME"] || path == "/")
return ""
end
loadrc(dirname(path))
juliarc = joinpath(path, ".juliarc.jl")
if isfile(juliarc)
println("Loading config file:", juliarc)
include(juliarc)
end
end
loadrc(pwd())
Perhaps this should be done by default?
