From: Nate Wiger <nwiger@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T05:55:43+09:00
Subject: Re: How to maintain App config data?

poopdeville@gmail.com wrote:
> 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
>
> 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

Awesome, that looks great. I think I'll tweak it into a Singleton w/o 
the global vars (just method accessors). I'll post a follow-up if I come 
up with something semi-portable.

-Nate