From: poopdeville@...
Date: 2006-10-25T04:10:13+09:00
Subject: Re: How to maintain App config data?


Nate Wiger wrote:
> 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
>

The first option is most like the Perl solution.  It's pretty
straightforward.  Something along these lines might work for you,
though it's not a singleton class by design:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/aba4124d4d16d6b0