Templates

A template is a set of actions and terminals you reuse across some projects but not all — the Rails tools for your Rails apps, say. Save it in ~/.lpm/templates/ and pull it in by name with extends.

Writing a template. A template holds only actions, with terminals written as type: terminal:

~/.lpm/templates/rails-tools.yml

actions:
  logs:
    cmd: tail -f log/development.log
    type: terminal
    reuse: true               # one pane, reused on every click
  console:
    cmd: bin/rails console
    type: terminal
  routes: bin/rails routes

Using it. List templates in extends in a project file, .lpm.yml, or global.yml. The file that extends wins field by field, so you can change one command and keep the rest:

~/.lpm/projects/shop.yml

name: shop
root: ~/Projects/shop
extends: [rails-tools]        # ~/.lpm/templates/rails-tools.yml
services:
  web: bin/rails server
actions:
  logs:
    cmd: tail -f log/test.log # overrides the template's command

Good to know

With several templates, the earlier one in the list wins. A template’s own extends is not followed, and a name with no matching file is skipped.