Comments on: Configatron 1.0.0 Released!

By: Mark Bates

Mark Bates — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:59:24 +0000

Thanks Diego, I’ll check it out. It might be a better way of storing stuff under the covers. Thanks.

By: Configatron 1.1.0 Released — Mack Framework

Configatron 1.1.0 Released — Mack Framework — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:54:54 +0000

[...] the heels of last week’s successful release of Configatron 1.0.0 comes version 1.1.0. The big addition, feature wise, to 1.1.0 is the ability [...]

By: Diego Algorta

Diego Algorta — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:16:05 +0000

Forgot to include the link:
http://www.intridea.com/2008/4/13/mash-mocking-hash-for-total-poser-objects

By: Diego Algorta

Diego Algorta — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:15:43 +0000

Have you seen Mhash?

It’s not exactly a configuration framework… but looking at configatron reminded me about Mhash. I see similarities. And maybe, I’d like configatron to get rid of the explicit namespace creation. Maybe you’d like to consider using Mhash as the underlying object behind configatron?

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A Fresh Cup » Blog Archive » Double Shot #281 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:38:04 +0000

[...] Configatron 1.0.0 Released – General-purpose manager for configuration variables in Ruby applications. (via RubyFlow) [...]

By: Mark Bates

Mark Bates — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:35:54 +0000

Soleone, glad you like it, I do too. In the meantime, before YAML support comes along, hopefully this week, maybe next, you can use the configure_from_hash method, just pass it YAML.load(‘/path/to/file.yml’), and it should work just fine.

By: Soleone

Soleone — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:20:33 +0000

Allright, haven’t thought about aliasing. Thanks for the hint, works great! I will definitely use this in future projects, especially with the yaml support coming Because I want end users of my config file only to see the bare minimum (which means possibly no ruby code block)

By: Mark Bates

Mark Bates — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:09:27 +0000

I’ve been meaning to add a configure_from_yaml file method to it, I’ll see if I can get to it this week. There’s a configure_from_hash method you could use in the meantime. If you don’t like the method name configatron, you can easily just alias it off to something else. I used it because I felt pretty confident that no one else would be using that name in their apps.

By: Soleone

Soleone — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:38:52 +0000

Haha, just today I was thinking of inventing a library that does something like this myself. Great work, love the simplicity!

Would be cool though if it also worked with yaml files, and if you could configure it to use another word than ‘configatron’.

By: Mark Bates

Mark Bates — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:09:50 +0000

SimpleConfig looks nice, but it definitely has a few differences from Configatron. The first big difference is that SimpleConfig is limited to use with Rails. Configatron can be used with any framework, any application, and any script. Configatron also seems a bit easier to use. There are no mixins needed to use it. The configatron method lives in Kernel, which means it’s available everywhere, no ‘configuration’ needed. Different strokes, eh? There are a few other configuration systems out there, I always encourage people to check out the options before they decide on a piece of software to use.