From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-05-30T09:21:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question: Value from YML file into a class...


On May 29, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:

> On my project we're using ActiveLdap. One of our classes, called  
> Account. It
> extends the ActiveLdap::Base class and has a call to define it's LDAP
> mappings as follows:
>
> class Account < ActiveLdap::Base
>  ldap_mapping :dn_attribute => 'cn', prefix => 'cn=users,cn=accounts'
> end
>
> The value passed to prefix, though, needs to come from a YML file.  
> But, I'm
> not sure how to get the value there. I've tried loading the YML  
> elsewhere
> and accessing the value, but I'm perpetually getting a nil value. In
> another class, named LdapConnection, I load the YML and, from  
> Account, try
> to grab the "prefix" value, but no luck.
>
> Any help/advice is appreciated.

probably the yaml keys are strings and you are accessing them via  
symbols.

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