Agile Web Development

application_config functionality

‘application_config’ eases project configuring by introducing yaml config file in RAILS_ROOT/config folder and provides handful methods accessing config values based on current rails environment. So, you can have separate sets of configuration properties for each rails environment you use.

SVN Repository

http://application-config.googlecode.com/svn/

Installation

script/plugin install http://application-config.googlecode.com/svn/tags/application-config

Default configuration file

During installation plugin will create default config in RAILS_ROOT/config/application_config.yml, it looks like the following:

  development: &defaults
    items_per_page: 25
    secure_with_basic_auth: false
    base_url: development.com
  test:
    <<: *defaults
    base_url: test.com
  production:
    <<: *defaults
    base_url: production.com

Usage

You then can access those values using ‘property’ method:

  class FooController < ApplicationController
    def index
      @base_url = property(:base_url)
    end
  end

This will set @base_url with value ‘development.com’ if you run that in development environment.

Copyright & License

Copyright © 2008 Pavlo Lysov, released under the MIT license

Owner: Pavlikus

Home: http://application-config.googlecode.com

Repository: http://application-config.googlecode.com/svn/trunk

License: Rails' (MIT)

Category: Misc. Enhancements