From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-08-10T22:22:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading contents of a file and storing

A lot of people use YAML, a different format like this:

url: http://localhost
emailid: User@htmdec.com
password: "12345678"
browser: iexplore

However personally I dislike YAML because it's very data-sensitive (note 
the need for quotes around the password above) and sometimes buggy.

If you google for "ruby ini file" you'll find some code which probably 
does what you need. Otherwise, it's pretty easy to roll your own:

conf = {}
File.open("conf.ini") do |source|
  source.each_line do |line|
    if line =~ /^(\w+)\s*=\s*"(.*)"\s*$/
      conf[$1] = $2
    end
  end
end

Here I build a Hash, so you can access it as

  conf['url']

But you could build an OpenStruct instead (look at ostruct.rb) so you 
could access it as conf.url
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