On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Martin Grotzke <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the documentation [1] says
>
>  "You can also set environment variables from within your Buildfile.
>  [..] Make sure to set any environment variables at the very top of
>  the Buildfile, above any Ruby statement (even require)."
>
>
> I tried this with adding
>
>  ENV['BUILDR_ENV'] = 'test'
>
> to the top of my buildfile to set the default profile to 'test'.
> Unfortunately, still the 'development' profile is used (it's printed in
> the very first line after running buildr and I see the 'development'
> profile is applied).
>
> Should setting the 'BUILDR_ENV' variable in the buildfile work, or is it
> just a documentation issue (because it's not meant to work for the
> environment environment variable)?


Not supposed to work for BUILDR_ENV. This environment variable is used
before the buildfile is loaded.

http://buildr.apache.org/settings_profiles.html#environments

It shows the two supported ways for setting the environment. You might have
to wrap Buildr with another script that does something like:

buildr -e $HOSTNAME

Assaf


>
>
> Btw, what I really want to do: we're using profiles for our development
> machines, with a profile for each machine/hostname, inheriting a common
> profile (like development). Therefore I'd like to initialize the buildr
> environment with s.th. like
>
>  ENV['BUILDR_ENV'] ||= ENV['HOSTNAME']
>
> This just if you wonder why the hell I want to set the default profile
> to 'test' ;)
>
> Thanx && cheers,
> Martin
>
>
> [1] http://buildr.apache.org/settings_profiles.html#environment_variables
>
>

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