From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2008-01-11T05:52:37+09:00
Subject: Re: using ruby for config files

I used to love YAML but the whitespace / indent issue has bitten me
too many times.

I needed a config file today, and eventually went for a
lib/config.rb like:

CONFIG = {
 :servera => {
    :hostname => 'a.com',
    :remote_user => 'usera'
 },
 :serverb => {
    :hostname => 'b.org',
    :remote_user => 'userb'
 }
}

I just load it in with 'require config'.

I know it's a bit cryptic to non-rubyists (compared to e.g. yaml)
but it has the HUGE advantage of being easy to validate (ruby -wc
lib/config.rb).

Be interested to know how others do it - an include/mixin maybe?


On Jan 9, 2008 9:00 AM, Marc Heiler <shevegen@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> Hmm the config style looks nice, but the code looks a bit complex?
>
> I use yaml right now even though it has a few disadvantages (for me in
> this regard) because of indent (where a user may get parse errors).
> And from this yaml info I generate or build system info, on top of it.
>
> I think what would be cool, would be a minimal "config" interpreter with
> only
> a very few (but still quite) readable lines of ruby code. (Anyway,
> that's just my opinion)


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