infer environment variable name similar to how variables names are inferred (ie from long form option)

[ebertech]

Hi

Long time listener, first time caller.

I'm wondering if anyone is opposed to having the ability to have:

option %w{--beep-boop}, "VALUE", "the beep and the boop", :environment_variable => true

translate to

option %w{--beep-boop}, "VALUE", "the beep and the boop", :environment_variable => "BEEP_BOOP"

the algorithm for which would be taking doing

def environment_variable
  @environment_variable ||= attribute_name.upcase
end

plus allowing overrides via the traditional way as to not break existing stuff. This would be similar to how delegate is done in rails

https://apidock.com/rails/Module/delegate

Or if there's a smarter way to do this because I find myself either making a "Concern" that does this automagically or manually translating the name and upcasing it. Both of which seem...unrubyish.

I'm more than happy to provide code and tests and such, I was just making sure this hadn't been considered and discarded previously. In which case apologies for wasting your time.

[kigster]

Not a bad idea, minus hard-coding of the naming convention converter: the conversion from an option name to ENV variable should be extensible by a class, for example:

option %w{--beep-boop}, "VALUE", "the beep and the boop", :env_mapper => EnvironmentMapper.new
class EnvironmentMapper
   def call(value)
      "FOO_#{value.to_s.upcase}"
   end
end