From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-04-08T11:12:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Best practice for saving settings in separate file



On Apr 7, 9:20 pm, Oyvind Pettersen <pettersen.oyv...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm currently building an application that relies on a rather large set
> of settings and paths that needs to sit in its own file.
>
> What are the best way to go about? XML? Simple strings in a text file?
>
> The settings files would be created manually, but the app will have to
> update a few integers in the files.

Unless you have a reason not to use it, the most common practice in
Rubydom is to use YAML.

  require 'yaml'

  settings = YAML.load(File.new("file.yaml"))

You can learn more about YAML here: http://www.yaml.org/
And very helpful to get started: http://www.yaml.org/YAML_for_ruby.html