Search for yaml keys across multiple files

Ever wondered where that i18n locale was defined but your project is massive and legacy and has multiple competing inconsistent standards of organisation? Let findyml ease your pain by finding that key for you!

gem install findyml

findyml [path] query

Outputs all matching keys across all *.yml files in the given directory, including line and column number.

(Defaults to current directory if you don't specify a path)

Example:

findyml config/locales en.activerecord.attributes
# config/locales/active_record.en.yml:3:6

You can also do partial matches, by starting/ending with a dot or putting an asterisk (*) in place of a key.

findyml .activerecord.attributes
findyml 'en.*.attributes'

(You have to quote the query if you use * because your shell will think it is a dir glob)

NOTE: if you end with a dot, or the last key is an asterisk, it will return every single sub key. i.e. careful if you try findyml en. or findyml en.*, you will get every line of every english locale file 🙃.

• Allow optional keys in query: foo.[bar,baz].qux (qux key in either bar or baz parent key)
• Allow negated keys in query: foo.!bar.baz (baz with any parent but bar)
• Partial key matches: foo.bar_* (any key starting with bar_)
• Allow * and ** like directory globbing.
• Fuzzy matching?
• Find and fix bugs
• Optimisation, caching

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/danini-the-panini/findyml.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.