From: Nate Wiger <nwiger@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T03:32:03+09:00
Subject: How to maintain App config data?

I'm writing an app in Rails, but some modules need to work outside of 
Rails. In these classes, I'd like to have a common way to access 
configuration data. Two approaches I though of:

1. Use a Singleton class ala the Logger concept, and have
    a "conf" object floating around that can provide the
    "conf.root_dir" or whatever

2. Mixin a module that provides a conf() routine, so that
    classes would call conf('root_dir') / etc


Opinions? In the Perl world, I would use Config::Fast and attach a 
$self->{conf} hashref to my classes, which all point to a shared object.

Thanks,
Nate