YAML dependency

[Guilherme Mello]

Hi,

I'm creating a Gem and the code uses data from a YAML file:

CONFIG = YAML.load_file("config/file.yml")["development"]

This code is fixed in the class and located at Rails.root/config. The
Gem looks to that path and loads the YAML.

The question is: How allow the user to set what environment will be used
outside of Gem ?

 

[Phillip Gawlowski]

Hi,

I'm creating a Gem and the code uses data from a YAML file:

CONFIG = YAML.load_file("config/file.yml")["development"]

This code is fixed in the class and located at Rails.root/config. The
Gem looks to that path and loads the YAML.

The question is: How allow the user to set what environment will be used
outside of Gem ?

Don't hard code the pathname, instead provide a default filename if

myinstance = YourClass.new # or whatever makes sense for your gem

doesn't pass a valid filename. Or check if you are running in Rails,
and then supply a default filename, or...

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When I've played and passed through,
Who'll remember my song or my face.

 

[Rick DeNatale]

Hi,

I'm creating a Gem and the code uses data from a YAML file:

CONFIG = YAML.load_file("config/file.yml")["development"]

This code is fixed in the class and located at Rails.root/config. The
Gem looks to that path and loads the YAML.

The question is: How allow the user to set what environment will be used
outside of Gem ?

Don't hard code the pathname, instead provide a default filename if

myinstance = YourClass.new # or whatever makes sense for your gem

doesn't pass a valid filename. Or check if you are running in Rails,
and then supply a default filename, or...

Well from the OP I take it he is running in Rails due to the reference
to Rails.root/config, and I think he's trying to emulate the kind of
thing used to differentiate on the RAILS_ENV environment value in
files like config/database.yml where the load produces a hash keyed on
the environment. So, assuming the gem always is used in a Rails
environment something like:


CONFIG = YAML.load_file(Rails.root + "config/file.yml")[Rails.env]

Rails.root returns a Pathname object, and Rails.env returns the value
of ENV['RAILS_ENV'] which was the old school way before The Rails
module got the env singleton method.

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