Project templating system

init.rb

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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+require 'liquid'
+require 'yaml'
+
+# Open the properties file
+properties_file = File.open "properties.yaml"
+properties_yaml = properties_file.read
+puts properties_yaml
+puts
+# Ask the user if the properties are correct
+puts "Are these properties correct?"
+reply = gets
+if reply[0] != "y" then
+  puts "Aborting.  Edit properties.yaml to make changes."
+  exit
+end
+
+# Load the properties
+properties = YAML::load(properties_yaml)
+
+# process the files
+files = [ "pom.xml" ]
+files.each do |file|
+  puts "Processing #{file}..."
+  # read the file
+  template = File.open(file, "r").read
+  # process the file
+  rendering = Liquid::Template.parse(template).render properties
+  # write the file
+  File.open(file, "w").write(rendering)
+end
+
+puts "Successful.  Removing init.rb..."
+File.delete "init.rb"
+
+puts "Done!"

properties.yaml

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+---
+project : my-project
+description : ~