From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-11-25T02:25:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Where should I put my config file, and how to load it?

Ian Bridgeman wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> I have a small app/set of libraries I'm developing at work called
> Sweet. I'm distributing it internally as a ruby gem, which is working
> nicely. However I rather foolishly put Sweet's yaml config file in its
> config/ directory, so now every time the gem gets upgraded, it wipes
> out the current settings. Oops! My plan to fix this problem is to
> store the config file at ~/.sweetrc, with a global config file at
> /etc/sweetrc to fall back to if the home directory one isn't
> available. Does this sound like a sensible solution? 

Only if your gem is meant as an executable application.

> Or am I going
> mad?
> 
> The second (and more ruby-ish) question I have is: How can I make sure
> all my classes have access to the contents of the config file? My
> classes all reside within the 'Sweet' module, and ideally I would like
> to be able to do something along the lines of
> 
> @data_directory = Sweet::Config['data_directory']
> 
> in the initialisation method of any of my classes. Previously all of
> the code was pretty much in one class, so that class just had a method
> to load the yaml, but I'm doing a pretty major refactoring for Sweet
> v2.
> 

Put the yaml in the Config object.

> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> - Ian  :)
> 
> (Instances of the words 'config file' in this email: 4)

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