Introduction

RF2-D2 is an open source SNOMED CT release tool, which allows you to check, create and publish SNOMED CT Extension and Edition releases with care.

Feature include:

Validation and verification (rf2 check)
- Verifies existing RF2 Release file names and structure
- Validates SNOMED CT content using a number of validation rules (WIP)
Packaging (rf2 create)
- Packages a single RF2 Release from one or more RF2 files and other sources
- Configure and customize the name of the RF2 Release and RF2 files
- Configure release structure and add additional content like custom files, documentation and resources
Transformation (rf2 transform)
- Filtering out certain parts from existing RF2 files (for example exclude all content from a module, etc.)
- Replaces values in RF2 files using conditions, simple statements and even external scripts
Diffing (rf2 diff)
- Diff RF2 text files and releases (WIP)

Get RF2-D2

First steps

After successfully downloading the appropriate RF2-D2 release package for your operating system, run:

unzip rf2-d2-0.3.4-linux-64.zip
cd rf2-d2-linux-64/bin
./rf2 -v

It will return with the version of RF2-D2 and the supported RF2 version:

RF2-D2 v0.3.4 @Copyright 2019 B2i Healthcare
Supported RF2 Version: 20190131

Run the following command to get the supported list of subcommands and their descriptions:

./rf2 -h

Run the following command to get help about a specific command:

./rf2 help check

You can add the rf2-d2-<version>/bin folder to your PATH, so it will be available globally and can be invoked with command rf2. Head over to the docs to learn more about what is possible with RF2-D2. If you have questions or feedback, feel free to create an issue here or contact us.