A Leiningen for automatically generating a Leiningen from a previously existing project. Woah! That's some meta shit! Why didn't you think of a cooler name? Sorry, I figured templating was annoying enough already...

Leiningen (via Clojars)

Put one of the following into the :plugins vector of the :user profile in your ~/.lein/profiles.clj:

[lein-ancient "0.1.1-SNAPSHOT"]

lein templater will generate a new template that will render all of the files in your current project (excluding those that are gitignored) into their appropriate directories, with your project's name properly replaced.

lein-tempater looks for a an optional :template key in project.clj.

Below is a list of understood keys

{;; the template's title to be used with lein new. defaults to same as project
 :title "project-title"
 ;; the relative path where the template will be generated. defaults to lein-template
 :output-dir "lein-template"
 ;; the version number of your current template. defaults to same as project
 :version "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
 ;; a msg to be output when someone uses your template
 :msg "Making a new template based on my-template!"
 ;; the relative path to a file that will serve as the template's
 ;; (not the readme of a project generated from the template)
 :readme "resources/README.template.md"
 ;; same as readme
 :license "resources/LICENSE"
 ;; a map of relative files and paths with which to override them.
 ;; A path of nil will exclude the file.
 :file-overrides {"README.md" "resources/README.new.md"
                  "something_to_exclude.clj" nil}
 }

to test if you're template actually works

cd lein-template
lein install

add the template into the :plugins vector of the :user profile in your ~/.lein/profiles.clj.

lein new my-template test-project

and try it out.

Copyright © 2014 Dylan Butman

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.