This plugin provides cuttlefish and automatically updates the release configuration at runtime to utilize cuttlefish. There is no need to add schema files to the relx overlay, copy the cuttlefish escript or create a custom start script, it is all handled by the plugin provider.

Add the plugin to your top level rebar config under project_plugins so it can override the default release and tar providers:

{project_plugins, [rebar3_cuttlefish]}.

Now the cuttlefish release and tar providers will be run when the release or tar task are run:

$ rebar3 release

The plugin provider will tell relx to create the dirs share/schema in the release, copy the cuttlefish escript to bin/ and discover all schema files in the project apps and their dependencies. All you should need for your relx config is:

{relx, [{release, {<name>, "0.1.0"},
        [<app_name>]},

        {dev_mode, true},
        {include_erts, false},

        {overlay_vars, "config/vars.config"}]}.

%% -*- mode: erlang;erlang-indent-level: 4;indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-
%% ex: ft=erlang ts=4 sw=4 et

%% Platform-specific installation paths
{platform_data_dir, "./data"}.

%% etc/vm.args
{node,         "<name>@127.0.0.1"}.
{crash_dump,   "{{platform_log_dir}}/erl_crash.dump"}.

The Cuttlefish plugin can take some configuration values:

{cuttlefish,
 [{file_name, "<release>.conf.example"},
  {schema_discovery, false}]}

• file_name will define the file the config is written to. (<release>.conf is the default)
• schema_discovery can be set to true or false to either enable or disalbe discovering all schema files in libraries. (true is the default).

Somtimes for testing you want to boot multiple nodes and require separate node names or ports, rebar3 makes this easy. First add a profile entry per node you want to run:

{profiles, [
    {node1, [{relx, [{overlay_vars, ["config/vars.config", "config/vars_node1.config"]}]}]}
    {node2, [{relx, [{overlay_vars, ["config/vars.config", "config/vars_node2.config"]}]}]}
    {node2, [{relx, [{overlay_vars, ["config/vars.config", "config/vars_node2.config"]}]}]}
]}.

For each profile create the config/vars_node<#>.config

{node, "node<#>@127.0.0.1"}.

Build each separately:

$ rebar3 as node<#> release

Run separately:

$ _build/node<#>/rel/<name>/bin/<name> console

Since cuttlefish uses sort order of the schema files by their name you may want to prepend a number to the schema file name, like 01-eleveldb.schema. While the plugin will automatically copy all schema files for you it will first check if there is already an overlay entry for each schema file. So if in overlay there is an entry {template, "schema/eleveldb.schema", "01-eleveldb.schema"} it will not make another copy.