From: jbritt@...
Date: 2003-01-26T08:19:33+09:00
Subject: Re: datafiles as Ruby source musings

> Does anybody have a nice hint or better trick to create data- or config files 
> readable with Ruby without having to write parsers in ruby?
> 
> thanks,
> Wilbert
> 

A not-uncommon approach is to define a class with your global vars

#----------------------------------------
# file config.rb
class Config
  VAR=true
  OTHERVAR=false
  YETANOTHER=true
  
  # Use some conditional logic to define a config constant ...
  winroot = ""
  /mswin/ =~ RUBY_PLATFORM ? winroot = "C:/" :  winroot = ""
  BASE_PATH = "#{winroot}/home/foobar"
end
#----------------------------------------

and then just require this file elsewhere

#----------------------------------------
# File my_test.rb
require 'config'

  my_var       = Config::VAR
  my_other_var = Config::OTHERVAR
  my_dev_path  = Config::BASE_PATH

#----------------------------------------

James