From: poopdeville@...
Date: 2006-10-26T04:10:19+09:00
Subject: Re: How to maintain App config data?


Nate Wiger wrote:
> 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.

Like the comments in there say, we're deprecating the global vars
usage.  It's only in there for backwards compatibility until we weed
them all out and start using the config object everywhere.

'cid 'ooh