From: Luke Ivers <technodolt@...>
Date: 2007-01-31T04:41:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Howto parse or eval a config-file?

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:30:06 +0900
"ChrisKaelin" <ck1@stonedragon.ch> wrote:

> I'm currently looking for a simple way to parse a configuration file 
> in a ruby-script. Is eval a good way to do that? YAML seems a bit an 
> overkill to learn for such a small task...
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> 
> So far I'm doing this:
> 
> the config-file:
> 
> Conf = {
> 	'host'        => 'localhost',
> 	'title'       => 'TIITEL',
> 	'mailhost'    => 'mailhost'
> }

Can you change the structure of your config file?
If you can, I would suggest writing the config file in yaml and using Ruby's built-in YAML stuff like so:

config-file:
Conf:
  host: localhost
  title: TIITEL
  mailhost: mailhost


the ruby
yaml_hash = File.open( 'config.yml' ) { |file| YAML::load(file) }
yaml_hash   # {"Conf" => { "host" => "localhost", "title" => "TIITEL", "mailhost" => "mailhost" }}

-- 
Luke Ivers <technodolt@gmail.com>