From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-08-17T04:06:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby report generation tool

Greg Brown wrote:
> Daniel Berger wrote:
>
> > Without looking at Ruport, I added support for YAML config files in
> > gruf.  So, say you have a config file that looks like this:
>
> You'd need to break into some computers to see Ruport just yet :)  It
> hasn't been released yet!  However, the development head will be moved
> to CVS on rubyforge when the first release comes out.  So it's only
> going to be a secret until the 28th
>
> >
> > # foo.config
> > host: blah.com
> > mailhost: bar.com
> > ENV:
> >    LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/lib
> >    ORACLE_HOME: /opt/oracle
> >
> > Then you call Report#configure.  This will automatically generate
> > "host" and "mailhost" methods (accessors) for you, with the values set
> > appropriately.  The ENV tag is special in that it simply sets
> > environment variables for your script (which I need sometimes).
>
> Very neat!  I'll definitely look into something like this for Ruport.
> I don't handle ENV variables yet, though my config setup (or Jame's
> actually) is essentially the same.
>
> -Greg

I've put release 0.0.2 out there which has the config support, and a
few other minor tweaks and fixes.

http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5594/gruf-0.0.2.tar.gz

Regards,

Dan