Shim Wrapper

A shim wrapper can be useful for some cases.

Bundler already activated Warnings

For example, if you’ve multiple versions of terraspace installed it can sometimes lead to dependencies resolution issues, and you’ll see errors like this:

You have already activated google-apis-core 0.3.0, but your Gemfile requires google-apis-core 0.2.1. Prepending `bundle exec` to your command may solve this.

This is due to the ruby system and bundler Gemfile.lock dependencies not matching. A coupon of options:

  1. bundle update: Update Gemfile.lock with bundle update.
  2. shim wrapper: Run bundle exec in front of your commands with a shim wrapper.

Approach #1 updates the Gemfile.lock dependencies to match the system and removes the warning. You won’t need a shim in this case. We’ll cover #2 next.

Shim Wrapper

The shim wrapper essentially ensures that bundle exec is prepended in front of terraspace when you’re within a project. This saves you precious finger-typing energy. You only have to set up the shim once.

Here’s a wrapper shim that will work with rbenv. We’ll create it at ~/bin/terraspace

~/bin/terraspace

#!/bin/bash
eval "$(rbenv init -)"
if [ -f config/app.rb ]; then
  exec bundle exec terraspace "$@"
else
  exec terraspace "$@"
fi

Make the file executable:

chmod a+x ~/bin/terraspace

Then add ~/bin to your PATH in your ~/.bash_profile

export PATH="~/bin:$PATH"

The wrapper shim will prepend bundle exec whenever in a Terraspace project folder with a Gemfile. It will not prepend bundle exec outside of a Terraspace project. For example, if you are using terraspace new project generator.

Generating the Shim Wrapper

You can also use terraspace to generate the shim wrapper.

terraspace new shim

You’ll see something like this:

$ terraspace new shim
      create  /usr/local/bin/terraspace
       chmod  /usr/local/bin/terraspace

If you want to specify the path where you want the shim to be saved like so:

terraspace new shim --path ~/bin/terraspace

Rbenv Shim Slowness

If you are using rbenv, it can be slow on some systems. You may want to consider replacing the shim that rbenv generates with a faster one. Here’s an example:

~/.rbenv/shims/terraspace

#!/usr/bin/env bash
EXE=$(gem which terraspace | sed 's|lib/terraspace.rb|exe/terraspace|')
if [ -f config/app.rb ]; then
  exec bundle exec $EXE "$@"
else
  exec $EXE "$@"
fi

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