huesler informatik

Having a convenient way to store an applications configuration is something I want in every Ruby project. There are plenty of solutions for Ruby on Rails but none of them did really match my taste, because they did way too much. I wanted something simple that does not depend on Ruby on Rails and does not try to be too clever.

Here are my requirements for a configuration lib:

• Nesting and namespaces
• Simple string interpolation
• Support for environments e.g testing, production, debug
• Defaults for each environment

And this is what I came up with:

• Use YAML (defaults, namespaces, scopes)
• Parse the YAML file with ERB
• Return an OpenStruct object for easy method accessors

The code and and information on how to install and use the lib can be found here: http://github.com/phuesler/simple_app_config