Re: [Fab-user] Defining global functions available outside project scope?

[Jeff Forcier]

Hey Nick,

Did you check out the 'load' Fab command? It's for loading up other
fabfiles and I'm pretty sure that's exactly what you need, based on
your original mail. Let me know if that turns out not to be the case.

-Jeff

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Nick Sergeant <address@hidden> wrote:
> Actually, looks like I spoke too soon.  The functions in my global
> definitions are included fine, but do not inherit the fab-specific methods,
> such as 'local', 'run', etc.  Here's what my file structure looks like:
> ~/fabric-global/fabric_global.py
> (~/fabric-global is on PYTHONPATH)
> fabric_global.py:
> def hello():
> "Print hello"
> local("echo hello")
>
> My fabfile.py:
> from fabric_global import *
> set(fab_user = 'admin')
> ...
> Though when running 'fab hello', I get:
> NameError: global name 'local' is not defined.
> Sorry for the noob problem!
> Nick Sergeant
> www.nicksergeant.com
> address@hidden
> (315) 719-2047
> On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Nick Sergeant wrote:
>
> Never mind, all set.  Not being a Python expert, had to keep poking around.
>  My solution was to simply create a Python module defining my base
> functions, and simply import the module in my fabfile.
> Nick Sergeant
> www.nicksergeant.com
> address@hidden
> (315) 719-2047
> On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Nick Sergeant wrote:
>
> We have a lot of projects that we'd like to integrate with fab, specifically
> for deploying the project with SVN and dumping the production database into
> our workstations.
> This would require us to create fabfiles for each project.  However, we
> would like to specify default functions for deploying and database dumping
> in a separate, project-agnostic location, and specify only project settings
> such as mysql connection credentials in each project's fabfile.
> What's the best way to do this?
> Nick Sergeant
> www.nicksergeant.com
> address@hidden
> (315) 719-2047
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