From: Al Chou <hotfusionman@...>
Date: 2001-06-18T04:27:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16573] Re: Configuration file parsing

--- Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
> "Anders Johannsen" <anders@ignition.dk> writes:
> 
> > Is there a preferred way of parsing configuration files in Ruby? I
> > suppose yacc/lex is ruled out?
> 
> A cheap way that works in some circumstances is to write the
> configuration in Ruby, and then just require the file in:

If you can use Windows .ini file format, you may want to look at
http://www.Ruby-Lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=IniFile .

There are other entries in the Utility section of the RAA that deal with
options and ini, but I haven't looked at them.


Al

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