On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Peter Donald <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My current usage of buildr has resulted in many subprojects. Some of
> these subprojects actually have no files as they simply repackaging
> jars as OSGi bundles (i.e. jars + more metadata). So I have decided to
> have a central "target" directory under which each project has a dir.
> i.e. The following snippet uses target/A and target/B as intermediate
> dirs of each project
>
> class CentralLayout < Layout::Default
> def initialize(key, top_level = false)
> super()
> prefix = top_level ? '' : '../'
> self[:target] = "#{prefix}target/#{key}"
> self[:target, :main] = "#{prefix}target/#{key}"
> end
> end
>
> define 'A', :layout => CentralLayout.new('A', true) do
> ...
> define 'B', :layout => CentralLayout.new('B') do
> ...
> end
> end
>
> Unfortunately I have to repeat the name of the project when
> constructing the layout. Is there any easy way to avoid this? The only
> way that I could think of is to make it an extension which is overkill
> atm (However I suspect by the time I reach the 20 or so subprojects it
> may be worthwhile).
>
Have you considered this simple solution?
def define_with_central_layout(name, &block)
define(name, :layout => CentralLayout.new(name), &block)
end
alex
