From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-04-09T19:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: importing config files

On 04/09/2010 03:53 AM, Derril Lucci wrote:
> Well, I am not too educated in configuration files.  I was going to just 
> write it in ruby (thats the language I am working in).  The 
> configuration file is being used to specify intervals in time.  My 
> project is generating a report for SysAdmins and this will allow them to 
> specify the interval at which they want the reports to be compared. 
> Getting back to the main problem, I had thought it was either "require" 
> or "include", but both of those proved fruitless.  Hope this info helps.

The simples approach is to use "load":

load File.join(ENV['HOME'], '.myconfrc')

file ~/.myconfrc:

$interval = 15

Kind regards

	robert

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