• List of all the tutorial steps
• [Previous tutorial v1.1_001] Let’s add our first variable (diff)

[tutorial v1.1_002] Describe the variable

• Read the tutorial "Describe the variable" in the documentation
• View the changes in the files

Screenshot

Clone and install

To test this tutorial, you need to download this repository and install Rougail:

git clone -b 1.1 https://forge.cloud.silique.fr/stove/rougail-tutorials.git
cd rougail-tutorials
python -m venv venv_rougail
. venv_rougail/bin/activate
pip install rougail-cli rougail-output-exporter rougail-output-doc rougail-user-data-yaml

Then switch to the tutorial page:

git switch --detach v1.1_002

Structure

.
└── firefox
    └── 00-proxy.yml

Contents of the firefox/00-proxy.yml file

%YAML 1.2
---
version: 1.1

proxy_mode:  # Configure Proxy Access to the Internet
...

---

Let's generate the documentation

rougail -m firefox/ -o doc

View the documentation file

---

Let's generate the changelog

rougail -m firefox/ -o doc --doc.contents changelog --doc.changelog.previous_json_file previous.yml

View the changelog file

---

User datas

Example 1

config/01/config.yml

---

---

Output

rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -yf config/01/config.yml

Caution

• proxy_mode (Configure Proxy Access to the Internet): 🛑 mandatory variable but has no value

---

Output in read write mode

rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -yf config/01/config.yml --cli.read_write

Note

Caption:

• Variable
• Default value

Variables:

• 📓 proxy_mode (Configure Proxy Access to the Internet): null

---

Example 2

config/02/config.yml

---
proxy_mode: No proxy

---

Output

rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -yf config/02/config.yml

Note

Caption:

• Variable
• Modified value

Variables:

• 📓 proxy_mode (Configure Proxy Access to the Internet): No proxy ← loaded from the YAML file "config/02/config.yml"

---

Example 3

config/03/config.yml

---
proxy_mode: foo

---

Output

rougail -m firefox/ -u yaml -yf config/03/config.yml

Note

Caption:

• Variable
• Modified value

Variables:

• 📓 proxy_mode (Configure Proxy Access to the Internet): foo ← loaded from the YAML file "config/03/config.yml"

---

• [Next tutorial v1.1_003] Set a default value (diff)