From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-10-09T02:42:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestions for common/global data in app (cli)

Nit Khair wrote:
> I am writing a (my first) client side ruby app. Many programs use the
> same data such as db login, logger etc. Is there a standard ruby way of
> doing this? Some suggestions would be useful.
> 
> - I have used YAML for config data for single scripts earlier
> - I am aware of 'load'ing a ruby file which could have config data in
> it.
> - A module with global constants
> 
> Would these files (yaml, load) have to loaded in each program?
> 
> Have I missed any approach? I have heard of global vars but never used.
> 
> I would appreciate a link to any ruby application best practices, too.
> Thanks.

One suggestion (based on yaml):

http://redshift.sourceforge.net/preferences/

It also provides a utility method to find the right user dir to store 
prefs in, based on env vars.

It may be overkill for a simple program though.

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