Programmatic usage of sails (for testing, core testing, scheduled jobs, build scripts, etc.)

bootstrap-sails-in-memory.js

// NOTE:
// you may need to grab the latest version of Sails on the v0.10 branch for some of this to work

var sails = require('sails');

// You can do a lot here, but I'll show a few important ones
var options = {
	
	// Completely disable globals (sails, your models, your services, _, async)
	globals: false,
	
	// Explicitly name the hooks you want to load:
	// (all other hooks will be skipped)
	loadHooks: ['moduleloader', 'userconfig', 'orm']
};

// Load Sails into memory so you can use it programatically
sails.load(options, function (err) {
	if (err) sails.log('Encountered an error starting Sails:', err);
	sails.log('Sails is ready to go!');
	
	//      sails.config
	//	sails.models
	//      sails.connections
	// and so on
});



// Or if you use `lift`, it'll also start up the HTTP/WS servers:
sails.lift(options, function (err) {
	//...
});