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author | Nat Lasseter <nat.lasseter@york.ac.uk> | 2020-11-10 11:56:31 +0000 |
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committer | Nat Lasseter <nat.lasseter@york.ac.uk> | 2020-11-10 11:56:31 +0000 |
commit | 618f835efedcace3c722549d6a436ceeb84c5cba (patch) | |
tree | 1c1773ed71e8a632357dda378b11fb751b957225 | |
parent | 772064b3ecfe762bbceff3d23d18aa2177e90f91 (diff) |
Update Readme: docs for raider config
-rw-r--r-- | Readme.textile | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Readme.textile b/Readme.textile index 3d0bf18..23ba4da 100644 --- a/Readme.textile +++ b/Readme.textile @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ h2. Raiders Raiders go out, raid things, and return to the longboat with metrics for the collector. -Longboat will pick up all raiders in the @lib/raiders@ directoryby default. +Longboat will pick up all raiders in the @lib/raiders@ directory by default. h3. Raider structure @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ end h3. Raider config -Longboat offers the @Longboat::Config.for_raider@ primitive to allow raiders to get command line arguments at runtime. It takes a block which is passed wholesale to @Optimist::Parser.new@, and returns a hash of parsed arguments. +Longboat offers the @Longboat::Config.for_raider@ primitive to allow raiders to get command line arguments at runtime. It takes a block which is passed wholesale to @Optimist::Parser.new@, and returns a hash of parsed arguments. For more information see the "documentation":https://github.com/ManageIQ/optimist "for":https://www.manageiq.org/optimist/ "Optimist":https://github.com/ManageIQ/optimist/wiki. Consider the following raider: @@ -115,3 +115,5 @@ bc. $ ./longboat --myraider-an-argument The <code>@my_config</code> hash will look like: bc. {:myraider_an_argument => true, :myraider_an_argument_given => true} + +Be aware that there's no namespacing between raider arguments, so it's recommended that you prefix your argument with the raider's name, such as @--myraider-an-argument@. Also be aware that the automatic short-options are very likely to clash horribly, so try to avoid using these. |