Rulet

Rulet is a library to think differently when we need to create settings for our applications. It is based on rules and tags that will help us to combine sets of objects.

Let's start with an example

The problem

Suppose that we have different environments, different apps, different scenarios. Our matrix combination of rules should have 3 dimensions and we need to define settings for all of them:

let settings = {
    qa: {
        firstApp: {
            loginRight: {
                username: "Right", password: "right"
            },
            loginWrong: {
                username: "Wrong", password: "wrong"
            }
        },
        secondApp: {
            loginRight: {
                username: "RightForSecondApp", password: "right"
            },
            loginWrong: {
                username: "Wrong", password: "wrong"
            }
        }
    },
    prod: {
        firstApp: {
            loginRight: {
                username: "Right", password: "right"
            },
            loginWrong: {
                username: "Wrong", password: "wrong"
            }
        },
        secondApp: {
            loginRight: {
                username: "RightsForSecondAppInProd", password: "right"
            },
            loginWrong: {
                username: "Wrong", password: "wrong"
            }
        }
    }
}

Another alternative could be the use of a common attribute, and reuse it in some cases. But, what happens when we need different commons in different situations? We end up in the same approach.

The solution

'use strict'

const Rulet = require('rulet')

With Rulet we organize the settings based on rules and tags.

• rules are JS conditions on the first level of an object. You can create any kind of condition using tags. E.g:

  let settings = {
      // Rule 1
      "(myTag1 || myTag2) && myTag3": { mySetting: 123 },
  
      // Rule 2
      "myTag3": { myAnotherSetting: 456 }
  };

• tags are use to fetch the desired information. Rulet will apply all rules from top to bottom, combining them.

  
  let tags = ['myTag3', 'myTag1'];
  
  let rulet = new Rulet(settings, tags);
  let outConfiguration = rulet.getConfiguration();
  
  console.log(outConfiguration); /* Will print: { mySetting: 123, myAnotherSetting: 456 } */

A real example:

'use strict'

const Rulet = require('rulet')

let settings = {
  'qa || prod': {
    loginWrong: {
      username: 'Wrong', password: 'wrong'
    }
  },
  '(qa || prod) && firstApp': {
    loginRight: {
      username: 'Right', password: 'right'
    }
  },
  'qa && secondApp': {
    loginRight: {
      username: 'RightForSecondApp', password: 'right'
    }
  },
  'prod && secondApp': {
    loginRight: {
      username: 'RightsForSecondAppInProd', password: 'right'
    }
  }
}

let tags = ['qa', 'secondApp']

let rulet = new Rulet(settings, tags)
let outConfiguration = rulet.getConfiguration()

console.log(outConfiguration)
/* It will print:
    {
        loginWrong: { username: 'Wrong', password: 'wrong' },
        loginRight: { username: 'RightForSecondApp', password: 'right' }
    }
*/

Author: Miguel Ángel Domínguez Coloma [email protected] (http://eridem.net)