Importing config files

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Hi everyone,
  I am writing a program for my research that uses configuration files.
I was curious how to import these files into my ruby program. Any help
would be appreciated. If it helps, I am running ruby 1.9.

Cheers,
  dlucci

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What kind of configuration files? What format are they in? YAML, XML?

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On Apr 8, 4:21 pm, Derril Lucci <derril.lu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,
I am writing a program for my research that uses configuration files.
I was curious how to import these files into my ruby program. Any help
would be appreciated. If it helps, I am running ruby 1.9.

Cheers,
dlucci
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Well, I am not too educated in configuration files. I was going to just
write it in ruby (thats the language I am working in). The
configuration file is being used to specify intervals in time. My
project is generating a report for SysAdmins and this will allow them to
specify the interval at which they want the reports to be compared.
Getting back to the main problem, I had thought it was either "require"
or "include", but both of those proved fruitless. Hope this info helps.

Cheers,
  dlucci

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If you could include a sample of the files' contents, it would be helpful.
require is used to access ruby libraries. What you are looking for is the
File class.
For example

File.open('config.txt').each do |line|
  puts line
end

will spit out each line of a file.

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On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Derril Lucci <derril.lucci@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, I am not too educated in configuration files. I was going to just
write it in ruby (thats the language I am working in). The
configuration file is being used to specify intervals in time. My
project is generating a report for SysAdmins and this will allow them to
specify the interval at which they want the reports to be compared.
Getting back to the main problem, I had thought it was either "require"
or "include", but both of those proved fruitless. Hope this info helps.

Cheers,
dlucci

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The simples approach is to use "load":

load File.join(ENV['HOME'], '.myconfrc')

file ~/.myconfrc:

$interval = 15

Kind regards

  robert

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On 04/09/2010 03:53 AM, Derril Lucci wrote:

Well, I am not too educated in configuration files. I was going to just write it in ruby (thats the language I am working in). The configuration file is being used to specify intervals in time. My project is generating a report for SysAdmins and this will allow them to specify the interval at which they want the reports to be compared. Getting back to the main problem, I had thought it was either "require" or "include", but both of those proved fruitless. Hope this info helps.

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