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application_config functionality

‘application_config’ eases project configuring by introducing erb enabled 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 (please note it’s okay to put ERB tags in there) 

  development: &defaults
    items_per_page: 25
    secure_with_basic_auth: false
    base_url: development.com
    erb_enabled_property: <%= Rails.root + "/something" %>
  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

Vitals

Home http://application-config.googlecode.com
Repository http://application-config.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
License Rails' (MIT)
Tags Tag_red confiuration
Rating (12 votes)
Owner Pavlikus
Created 12 June 2008

Comments

  • Avatar
    Norman Clarke
    13 June 2008

    I posted more or less the exact same thing several months ago, except it's a generator rather than a plugin. If you want we could probably find some way to merge them together since I don't think the world needs two separate projects that do almost the exact same thing.

    http://randomba.org/index.php/2008/01/03/application-config-generator-for-rails/

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    Victor Brylew
    12 August 2008

    Thanks. Very useful and POLS plugin.

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    Victor Brylew
    2 September 2008

    Perfect plugin that does exactly what is needed and makes it in very simple way.

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    Eric Anderson
    21 January 2009

    I really like this plugin for a simple configuration. My only complaint was that I wanted the YAML file parsed through ERB first so that some of my config settings which are paths can be dynamically determined based and Rails.root and other info. I couldn't find a way to contact the author so I figured I would post my change here:

    Change line 9 to the following for ERB processing before loading by YAML:

    $__app_config = YAML.load(ERB.new(File.read(config_file)).result binding)

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