Configuration Reference

Please read Invoke’s Configuration Guide on the concepts and basic mechanisms of its hierarchy of configuration files, environment variables, task namespaces and CLI flags. This reference guide lists the configuration options specific to tasks provided by Rituals.

Note

In the following tables of configurations settings, the root namespace of ‘rituals’ is implied, so to access them in a task you’d use ctx.rituals.‹name›, and INVOKE_RITUALS_‹NAME› to define an environment variable.

General Options

To make Python versions available that are not part of the host’s default installation, rituals.snakepits is used, e.g. when performing multi-environment testing. The default is /opt/pyenv/bin:/opt/pyrun/bin.

Name Description
snakepits Lookup path for Python interpreters

Options for ‘test’

If one of the directories in rituals.snakepits exists, it’s added to the PATH of tox.

Options for ‘docs’

The defaults for the docs task should almost always fit, but if you need to change them, you can.

Name Description
docs.sources Documentation source folder (docs)
docs.build Build area within the source folder (_build)
docs.watchdog.host IP to bind sphinx-autobuild to (127.0.0.1)
docs.watchdog.port Port to bind sphinx-autobuild to (8840)

Options for ‘release’

When release.prep changes the project configuration for a release and then tags the resulting changeset, the values from the following table are used for messages and names.

Name Description
release.commit.message Message used (:package: Release v{version})
release.tag.name Release tag (v{version})
release.tag.message Tag annotation (Release v{version})

The release.pex task has an --upload option to upload the created archive to a WebDAV repository, e.g. a local Artifactory server or to Bintray. The best way to make this usable in each of your projects is to insert the base URL of your Python repository into your shell environment:

export INVOKE_RITUALS_RELEASE_UPLOAD_BASE_URL=\
"http://repo.example.com/artifactory/pypi-releases-local/"
Name Description
release.upload.base_url WebDAV server end-point
release.upload.path WebDAV path ({name}/{version}/{filename})

The following settings are used when building self-contained releases that integrate eGenix PyRun.

Name Description
pyrun.version The version of PyRun to use (e.g. 2.1.0)
pyrun.python The version of Python to use (2.6, 2.7, or 3.4)
pyrun.ucs Unicode code points size (ucs2 or ucs4)
pyrun.platform The platform ID (e.g. linux-x86_64, macosx-10.5-x86_64)
pyrun.base_url Download location base URL pattern
pyrun.archive Download location file name pattern

The rituals.pyrun.base_url value can be a local http[s] URL of an Artifactory repository or some similar webserver, or else a file:// URL of a file system cache. Note that you should keep the unchanged name of the original download location, i.e. do not change rituals.pyrun.archive. The location patterns can contain the pyrun settings as placeholders, e.g. {version}.

This sets a local download cache:

export INVOKE_RITUALS_PYRUN_BASE_URL="file://$HOME/Downloads"

You have to download the PyRun releases you plan to use to that directory, using your browser or curl.

Options for ‘devpi’

When you call the devpi.refresh task without any option, the value of rituals.devpi.requirements is the name of the file parsed for the list of packages to refresh in the active devpi server. It defaults to dev-requirements.txt.

Name Description
devpi.requirements Name of requirements file to use for refreshing