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)