Allows the setting of environment specific configuration. The jQuery equivalent of Rails' config/environments files.
NOTE: Do not use this plugin to store 'secret' data about your app, or you will be exposing it to your DOM, and thereby hackety-hackers.
Use without DOM (globally):
Option 1.
Example:
// Setup in a conditionally loaded script, see example/jquery-environment-config.js.erb
$.environment({ here: 'dragon', env_name: 'production', foo: 'bar'});
// Usage elsewhere
$.environment.config('here'); // dragon
$.environment.config('env_name'); // production
$.environment.config('foo'); // bar
Two (three!) ways to use with DOM:
Option 1. via the data-environment attribute on any HTML element.
Example:
<body data-environment-configuration="{foo: 'bar'}">)
Option 2. via the instantiation options for the plugin.
Example:
$('body').environment({ here: 'dragon', env_name: 'production' });
Option 3. Option 1 + Option 2
Example:
// Do both of the above examples and then you get this usage:
$('body').environment.config('foo'); // bar
$('body').environment.config('here'); // dragon
$('body').environment.config('env_name'); // production
Author: @pboling
Version: 1.0
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Based on: 'Highly configurable' mutable plugin boilerplate by @markdalgleish and @addyosmani, see http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/11/essential-jquery-plugin-patterns/
This library aims to adhere to Semantic Versioning 2.0.0. Violations of this scheme should be reported as bugs. Specifically, if a minor or patch version is released that breaks backward compatibility, a new version should be immediately released that restores compatibility. Breaking changes to the public API will only be introduced with new major versions.
MIT license
Note that with this pattern, as per Alex Sexton's, the plugin logic hasn't been nested in a jQuery plugin. Instead, we just use jQuery for its instantiation.
