dotenv but 3 lines of ruby

#ruby #bash

edit: Thanks to Ben Curtis for inspiring me to cut this from 7 lines to 3.

Make an executable file with the following contents:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

regexp = /^(\w+)=['"]?(.+?)['"]?$/

ENV.update File.read(".env").scan(regexp).to_h if File.exist?(".env")
exec(ENV, *ARGV)

Make an alias. Here is one with bundle exec also included.

alias be="/path/to/executable bundle exec"

Make an .env file.

echo HELLO=WORLD > .env

Run be bash -c 'echo $HELLO'

This is great! Here's an alternative to the 2 lines of code in the loop:

    ENV.update l.chomp.scan(/^(?:export )?(\w+)\s*=\s*(?:['"])?([^'"]+)/i).to_h

This change also handles .env files that have lines in the format of export FOO=bar.

Author

How about 3 lines or fairly readable ruby?

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

regexp = /^(\w+)=['"]?(.+?)['"]?$/

ENV.update File.read(".env").scan(regexp).to_h if File.exist?(".env")
exec(ENV, *ARGV)

Author

Nice!

I will personally leave out the export stuff because I don't actually need to be compatible with dotenv, but it would be nice for people who do.

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