Rebar Templates

Rebar provides rails generator like facility, and Rebar-Templates give Erlang developers more templates and workflow.

How to use templates

To make the templates available, you need to clone the repo to your ~/.rebar/templates directory:

   $ git clone git://github.com:jacktang/rebar-templates.git
   $ ln -s /path/to/rebar-templates ~/.rebar/templates

Templates

Rebar project

   $ ./rebar create template=project projectid=kickstart

OTP standard application

   $ cd kickstart
   $ rebar create template=stdapp appid=<app_name>
   $ rebar create template=gensrv srvid=<srv_name>
   $ rebar create template=genfsm fmsid=<fsn_name>
   $ rebar create template=genevent eventid=<event_name>

Cowboy application and handlers

   $ cd kickstart
   $ rebar create template=cowboy_app appid=<app_name>
   $ rebar create template=cowboy_handler handlerid=chat handlertype=websocket

Wx-widget

   $ rebar create template=wx_object widgetid=button_ext

Test-driven skeleton? Of course! And generate test case only like below

  $ rebar create template=test testmod=<module_name> test=ct
  $ rebar create template=test testmod=<module_name> test=eunit
  $ rebar create template=test testmod=<module_name> test=spec

Console with hot-load in developement mode

Edit template_vars in rebar.config and execute below command. NOTE: rebar should be built from the branch

  $ rebar create template=dev_console

Requirements: Erlang, Git

See more info on the service layout:

• Basic development workflow
• Makefile targets
• Working with deps