From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T04:17:57+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
> 
> 
> 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.

This was developed for GUI (specifically FXRuby) apps, but would 
probably work with any kind of app:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/preferences/

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