From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-01-26T12:12:31+09:00
Subject: Re: datafiles as Ruby source musings

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Wilbert Berendsen wrote:

> 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?

XML
YAML

tho it seems like

module M
  eval IO.readline 'config'
end

is elegant enough, you could even

module M
  eval IO.readline "#{self}.config"
end


-a

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