From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-12-30T21:35:23+09:00
Subject: FreeRIDE 0.5.0rc1: patch to allow per-user properties


This is quite a hack, but it is transparent to the system and fixes the
issues I experienced.

Comments?

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--- freeride-0.5.0rc1.orig/freebase/readers.rb
+++ freeride-0.5.0rc1/freebase/readers.rb
@@ -23,9 +23,29 @@
     def self.load_libraries
       require 'yaml'
     end
-
+
+    def self.local_name(name)
+      filespec = $1 if name =~ %r{(config/.*)}
+      filespec = $1 if name =~ %r{(plugins/.*)}
+      "#{ENV['HOME']}/.freeride/#{filespec}"
+    end
+
+    class << self
+      private :local_name
+    end
+
     def self.save(base_slot, filespec, name, version)
-      file = File.new(filespec,  "w+")
+      begin
+        file = File.new(filespec,  "w+")
+      rescue Errno::EACCES
+        filespec = local_name(filespec)
+        dir = "/"
+        File.dirname(filespec[1..-1]).split("/").each do |d|
+          dir += "#{d}/"
+          Dir.mkdir(dir) rescue nil
+        end
+        file = File.new(filespec, "w+")
+      end
       file.puts "#### Properties: #{name} - Version: #{version}"
       file.puts gather_data(base_slot).to_yaml(:SortKeys=>true)
       file.close
@@ -45,6 +65,12 @@
     end

     def self.load(base_slot, filespec)
+      filespec2 = local_name(filespec)
+      if File.exist?(filespec2)
+        data = nil
+        File.open(filespec2) {|file| file.binmode; data = file.read}
+        read_slot(base_slot, YAML.load(data))
+      end
       return unless File.exist?(filespec)
       data = nil
       File.open(filespec) {|file| file.binmode; data = file.read}
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