From: Gavri Savio Fernandez <Gavri_F@...>
Date: 2003-11-29T03:10:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Need library for parsing configuration files

> -----Original Message-----
> From: T. Onoma [mailto:transami@runbox.com]
> Subject: Re: Need library for parsing configuration files
 
> > hi,
> > 	i'm writing an application which needs to parse a 
> configuration file on
> > program startup. is there a prefered format for 
> configuration files in
> > ruby? is there a library for such a purpose? i suppose i 
> could do the
> > parsing myself, but i was just wondering if there is a 
> sophisticated way
> > out there.
> >
> > thank you
> 
> I would consider Yaml.

Yaml is human-readable-and-writable, agreed, but only if the human is a programmer  :-)
Actually the problem is that i want configuration values segregated into different groups.
Users would find the Yaml syntax which requires indentation esoteric.

how feasible is it to use Kernel::load()  ? 
maybe i should let the user modify a ruby source-file, which looks kind of like this

application.ui	= true				       #true, false
window.size = 1000                                                 # 250 - 3000
images.max = 10                                                      # 1 - 50

and then load this file at an appropriate  time. 
is this a feasible way to do things?

> 
> -t0
> 
> 

Gavri Savio Fernandez
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