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Fernando Maymone
Fernando Maymone

Reputation: 355

Better way to add configurations files in Ruby?

I have an application in ruby, that I want to make some configurations. For example, in development, I want that a user can add only 10 photos on an albun for a certain plan.

Something like this: 

development: 
  number_photos:10
production:
  number_photos:30

And want to acess those values on my controllers. For example. On my photos_controller.rb

def get_number_photos
     #how can I read the value of the number_photos of the configuration file? 
end

What is the better way to do something like this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 57

Answers (1)

Aleksei Matiushkin
Aleksei Matiushkin

Reputation: 120990

Create the .config.yaml (name is arbitrary) file in Rails.root and fill it with your content.

development: 
  number_photos: 10
production:
  number_photos: 30

In your controller do:

yaml_config =
  YAML.load_file(Rails.root.join('.config.yaml'))
number_photos = yaml_config[Rails.env]['number_photos']

It’ll set the number according to your current environment setting.

Upvotes: 1

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