relazy

Relazy is a handy tool to help releasing new versions of your software. You can define the type of version generator you want to use (e.g. semantic versioning), where you want to store the version (e.g. in a changelog file or as a VCS tag) and a list of actions that should be executed before or after the release of a new version.

This project was originally inspired by the RMT project, but with some major refactoring and more modern approach (e.g. PHP config with autocompletion).

Installation

Option 1: As a development dependency of your project

In order to use relazy in your project you should use Composer to install it as a dev-dependency. Just go to your project's root directory and execute:

composer require --dev nucleos/relazy

Then you must need to create a .relazy.php config file to run the relazy executable script in your project's root folder.

./relazy

Once there, your best option is to pick one of the configuration examples below and adapt it to your needs.

Option 2: As a global Composer installation

You can add relazy to your global composer.json and have it available globally for all your projects. Therefor just run the following command:

composer global require nucleos/relazy

Make sure you have ~/.composer/vendor/bin/ in your $PATH.

Option 3: As a Phar file

Relazy can be installed through phar-composer, which needs to be installed therefor. This useful tool allows you to create runnable Phar files from Composer packages.

If you have phar-composer installed, you can run:

phar-composer install nucleos/relazy

and have phar-composer build and install the Phar file to your $PATH, which then allows you to run it simply as relazy from the command line, or you can run

phar-composer build nucleos/relazy

and copy the resulting Phar file manually to where you need it. Either make the Phar file executable via chmod +x relazy.phar and execute it directly ./relazy.phar or run it by invoking it through PHP via php relazy.phar.

For the usage substitute relazy with whatever variant you have decided to use.

Usage

Using relazy is very straightforward, just run the command:

./relazy release

Relazy will then execute the following tasks:

1. Execute the startup actions
2. Ask the user to answer potentials questions
3. Execute the pre-release actions
4. Release
   • Generate a new version number
   • Persist the new version number
5. Execute the post-release actions

Here is an example output:

Additional commands

The release command provides the main behavior of the tool, additional some extra commands are available:

• current will show your project current version number (alias version)
• changes display the changes that will be incorporated in the next release

Configuration

All relazy configurations have to be done in .relazy.php. The file is divided in the following elements:

• vcs: The type of VCS you are using, can be Git or Noop
• startupActions: A list [] of actions that will be executed just after startup without user interaction
• preReleaseActions: A list [] of actions that will be executed before the release process
• versionGenerator: The generator to use to create a new version (mandatory)
• versionPersister: The persister to use to store the versions (mandatory)
• postReleaseActions: A list [] of actions that will be executed after the release

All entries of this config work the same. You have to specify the class you want to handle the action. Example:

use Nucleos\Relazy\Changelog\Formatter\SemanticFormatter;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Config\RelazyConfig;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Version\Generator\SimpleGenerator;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Version\Persister\TagPersister;
use Nucleos\Relazy\VersionControl\Git;

return (new RelazyConfig(new Git()))
    ->versionGenerator(new SimpleGenerator())
    ->versionPersister(new TagPersister(tagPrefix: 'v_'))
    ->formatter(new SemanticFormatter())
    // ...
;

Extend it

Relazy is providing some existing actions, generators, and persisters. If needed you can add your own by creating a PHP script in your project, and referencing it in the configuration:

use Nucleos\Relazy\Config\RelazyConfig;
use Nucleos\Relazy\VersionControl\Git;

return (new RelazyConfig(new Git()))
    ->versionGenerator(new \Acme\CustomGenerator())
    // ...
;

Configuration examples

Most of the time, it will be easier for you to pick up an example below and adapt it to your needs.

No VCS, changelog updater only

use Nucleos\Relazy\Changelog\Formatter\SemanticFormatter;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Config\RelazyConfig;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Version\Generator\SimpleGenerator;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Version\Persister\ChangelogPersister;
use Nucleos\Relazy\VersionControl\Noop;

return (new RelazyConfig())
    ->versionGenerator(new SimpleGenerator())
    ->versionPersister(new ChangelogPersister())
    ->formatter(new SemanticFormatter())
    // ...
;

Using Git tags, simple versioning and startup actions

new Nucleos\Relazy\Action\VersionControl\CheckWorkingCopyAction;
new Nucleos\Relazy\Action\VersionControl\LastChangesAction;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Changelog\Formatter\SemanticFormatter;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Config\RelazyConfig;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Version\Generator\SimpleGenerator;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Version\Persister\ChangelogPersister;
use Nucleos\Relazy\VersionControl\Git;

return (new RelazyConfig(new Git()))
    ->versionGenerator(new SimpleGenerator())
    ->versionPersister(new ChangelogPersister())
    ->formatter(new SemanticFormatter())
    ->startupActions([
        new CheckWorkingCopyAction(),
        new DisplayLastChanges(),
    ])
;

Using Git tags, simple versioning and startup actions

use Nucleos\Relazy\Action\Composer\ValidateAction;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Action\Composer\StabilityCheckAction;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Action\Composer\DependencyStabilityCheckAction;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Changelog\Formatter\SemanticFormatter;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Config\RelazyConfig;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Version\Generator\SimpleGenerator;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Version\Persister\TagPersister;
use Nucleos\Relazy\VersionControl\Git;

return (new RelazyConfig(new Git(signCommit: true, signTag: true)))
    ->versionGenerator(new SimpleGenerator())
    ->versionPersister(new TagPersister())
    ->startupActions([
        new ValidateAction(),
        new StabilityCheckAction(),
        new DependencyStabilityCheckAction(allowList: [
            'symfony/console',
            'phpunit/phpunit' => 'require-dev',
        ]),
    ])
;

Using Git tags, simple versioning and startup actions, and gpg sign commit and tags

new Nucleos\Relazy\Action\VersionControl\CheckWorkingCopyAction;
new Nucleos\Relazy\Action\VersionControl\LastChangesAction;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Changelog\Formatter\SemanticFormatter;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Config\RelazyConfig;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Version\Generator\SimpleGenerator;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Version\Persister\ChangelogPersister;
use Nucleos\Relazy\VersionControl\Git;

return (new RelazyConfig(new Git(signCommit: true, signTag: true)))
    ->versionGenerator(new SimpleGenerator())
    ->versionPersister(new ChangelogPersister())
    ->startupActions([
        new CheckWorkingCopyAction(),
        new DisplayLastChanges(),
    ])
;

Using Git tags with prefix, semantic versioning, updating two files and pushing automatically

use Nucleos\Relazy\Action\Filesystem\FilesUpdateAction;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Action\VersionControl\PublishAction;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Config\RelazyConfig;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Version\Generator\SemanticGenerator;
use Nucleos\Relazy\Version\Persister\TagPersister;
use Nucleos\Relazy\VersionControl\Git;

return (new RelazyConfig(new Git(signCommit: true, signTag: true)))
    ->versionGenerator(new SemanticGenerator())
    ->versionPersister(new TagPersister(tagPrefix: 'v_'))
    ->preReleaseActions([
        new FilesUpdateAction(files: [
            'config.yml' => '%version%',
            'app.ini' => 'dynamic-version: %version%'
        ]),
    ])
    ->postReleaseActions([
        new PublishAction(),
    ])
;