From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-11-04T05:26:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Execute a file on read?

On 11/3/06, eddieroger <eddieroger@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am toying around with the concept of dynamic configuration files for
> Asterisk (http://www.asterisk.org), and I was wondering if its possible
> to have a dynamic file that's executed on read. Basicly, when executed,
> the script would output a file that Asterisk is happy with, and
> preferably the file could have the extension ".conf", but inside would
> be Ruby code. Is this possible, or am I pipe dreaming? Thanks.

Something like:

  File.open("foo.conf", "wb") do |cf|
    cf.puts <<-EOS
puts "Hello, Ruby."
    EOS
  end
  load "foo.conf"

?

-austin
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