Use "global" Thorfile

Question

I want to use Thor with thor-scmversion to bump the version of my Chef cookbooks. The normal way of using Thor is to create a Thorfile in the project folder and have tasks implemented in there. For my use case I would have to create a Thorfile in every cookbook I write containing only

require 'thor/scmversion'

My question is, whether I can somehow put such a file in a "global" directory and point to it, when I run thor on the command line from within my project folder.

Edit

I followed @coderanger's advice and used thor install Thorfile. This creates a directory .thor in the user's home directory (in my case: /var/lib/jenkins/.thor) and a thor.yml file that includes a reference to the Thorfile I added with the upper command.

When I now run thor list, I get

$ thor list
version
-------
thor version:bump TYPE [PRERELEASE_TYPE]  # Bump version number (type is major, minor, patch, prerelease or auto)
thor version:current                      # Show current SCM tagged version

but running thor version:current, I get the following error:

Could not find command "version:current".

So probably I missed something?

Answer 1

You can use thor install to set up a system-wide task. Bear in mind this might make things more difficult for other people since it won't be set up in git for them.