From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-12-01T23:23:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Need library for parsing configuration files

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:

> Personally I prefer Ruby files to use other Ruby files as their
> configuration files. To give an example of a config file:
>
> Conf = {
>         'stars'       =>  true,
>         'host'        => 'localhost',
        [...]
>         'filerules'   => '/home/jupp/.popclient-filerules.rb',
>         'logfile'     => '/home/jupp/popclient-log',
> }

The weakness in this is that people can put arbitrary ruby code in
there.  Granted, exactly how this should/could be limited is
difficult, but I'd think disallowing method calls may be a useful
sugestion.

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyAsAConfigurationLanguage

contains my preliminary thoughts about this.

        Hugh