From: Karl von Laudermann <doodpants@...>
Date: 2008-01-09T23:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: using ruby for config files

On Jan 9, 3:09 am, furtive.cl...@gmail.com wrote:
> I eventually settled on the below for my config file purposes.  I
> wanted configuration to be convenient and flexible.  Using XML or YAML
> robs me of the occasional #map, for example.  Using a hash for
> configuration is too error-prone; I should assume those doing the
> configuring have no knowledge of ruby.  That is,
>
> foo = "bar"
> size = 44

If you just want to have configuration files that are little more than
key/value pairs, why not use the Windows INI file format? There are
already ruby gems that provide read/write access to INI files:

$ gem list ini -r -d

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

ini (0.1.1)
    INI file reader and writer

inifile (0.1.0)
    INI file reader and writer