README.md
# Exreleasy
A very simple tool for releasing elixir applications.
Many people use erlang releases only for one reason: to bundle local erlang runtime inside the project. But unfortunatelly you loose the ability to run mix.
This tool bundles erlang/elixir locally and creates wrapper scripts for running mix/iex.
Credit for the idea goes to @savonarola
## Installation
1. Add `exreleasy` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:
```elixir
def deps do
[{:exreleasy, "~> 0.1.0"}]
end
```
## Usage
To bundle erlang/elixir inside your project:
mix exreleasy.localize
This will create `./release` directory with erlang/elixir and wrapper scripts:
./release/binstubs/mix
./release/binstubs/iex
./release/binstubs/iex_mix
./release/binstubs/erl
./release/binstubs/elixir
To make a release:
mix exreleasy.release v0.0.1
This will create `./release/archive/v0.0.1.tar.gz` archive with your project (including ./release directory)