Passing Options to Homebrew Formula

Homebrew Formula can receive options via command-line arguments.

Wanted to compile and install code from a private repo and Devs may use ssh or https in their local machines. So added an option to toggle the url/remote:

# Formula/infractl.rb
class Infractl < Formula
    desc "infrastructure management tool"

     option "with-https-remote", "Use https remote instead of ssh remote when cloning infractl repository"

    url "git@gitlab.com:path/to/myrepo.git", :using => :git, :branch => "main"
    version "main"

    if build.with? "https-remote"
        url "https://gitlab.com/path/to/myrepo.git", :using => :git, :branch => "main"
    end

    depends_on "go" => :build

    def install
        system "make", "build/infractl"
        bin.install "out/infractl"
    end
end

During installation we can do brew install --with-https-remote tap-name/infractl to use the https remote.

Also, brew options <formula> and brew install <formula> -h lists all available options for the formula.