You [Gerald Bauer¹] have been permanently banned [for life] from participating in r/ruby (because of your writing off / outside of r/ruby). I do not see your participation adding anything to this [ruby] community.
-- Richard Schneeman (r/ruby mod and fanatic illiberal ultra leftie on a cancel culture mission)
¹: I know. Who cares? Who is this Gerald Bauer anyway. A random nobody for sure. It just happens that I am the admin among other things of Planet Ruby.
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> I just banned gerald.bauer@gmail.com. > > -- SHIBATA Hiroshi > >> THANK YOU >> >> -- Ryan Davis >> >> >> My full support to moderators. >> >> -- Xavier Noria >> >> My full support to moderators. >> >> -- Carlo E. Prelz >> >> That's fun. >> >> -- Alice
Let’s say you’re looking for an easy configuration file format for your tool or service. Why not use the Windows-inspired INI format as an (easier and simpler) alternative to the popular JSON, YAML and TOML formats? Example:
ruby.conf:
title = Planet Ruby
[rubylang]
title = Ruby Lang News
link = http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news
feed = http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/feeds/news.rss
[rubyonrails]
title = Ruby on Rails News
link = http://weblog.rubyonrails.org
feed = http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/feed/atom.xml
[viennarb]
title = Vienna.rb News
link = http://vienna-rb.at
feed = http://vienna-rb.at/atom.xml
Now all that’s missing is a gem that reads in the Windows-inspired INI format and returns a plain “old” Ruby hash.
Using the props gem let’s you read in configuration settings in the Windows-inspired INI format.
Use the - surprise, surprise - INI class to get started. Example:
require 'pp'
require 'props'
hash = INI.load_file( './ruby.conf' )
puts "hash:"
pp hash
Will print:
hash:
{"title"=>"Planet Ruby",
"rubylang"=>
{"title"=>"Ruby Lang News",
"link"=>"http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news",
"feed"=>"http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/feeds/news.rss"},
"rubyonrails"=>
{"title"=>"Ruby on Rails News",
"link"=>"http://weblog.rubyonrails.org",
"feed"=>"http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/feed/atom.xml"},
"viennarb"=>
{"title"=>"Vienna.rb News",
"link"=>"http://vienna-rb.at",
"feed"=>"http://vienna-rb.at/atom.xml"}}
To access any settings works like any “standard” hash because it’s just a “standard” hash.
Use hash['rubylang'] and hash['rubylang']['title'] and so on. Example:
puts "rubylang:"
pp hash['rubylang']
# => {"title"=>"Ruby Lang News",
"link"=>"http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news",
"feed"=>"http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/feeds/news.rss"}
puts "viennarb:"
pp hash['viennarb']
# => {"title"=>"Vienna.rb News",
"link"=>"http://vienna-rb.at",
"feed"=>"http://vienna-rb.at/atom.xml"}
puts "rubylang/title: #{hash['rubylang']['title']}"
# => rubylang/title: Ruby Lang News
puts "viennarb/title: #{hash['viennarb']['title']}"
# => viennarb/title: Vienna.rb News
If you prefer you can wrap the hash in a Props class. Example:
props = Props.new( hash, 'ruby.ini' )
puts "rubylang:"
pp props.get('rubylang')
puts "viennarb:"
pp props.get('viennarb')
puts "rubylang/title: #{props.get_from_section('rubylang','title')}"
# => rubylang/title: Ruby Lang News
puts "viennarb/title: #{props.get_from_section('viennarb','title')}"
# => viennarb/title: Vienna.rb News
What’s the point you might ask? Using the Props class you can linkup hash settings
into a lookup hierachy. Example:
default_props = Props.new( defaults_hash, 'DEFAULTS' )
home_props = Props.new( home_hash, '~/ruby.conf', default_props )
props = Props.new( work_hash, './ruby.conf', home_props)
Now if you try props.get('viennarb'), for example, the getter will first
look in the working (current) folder settings hash
and than in the home folder settings hash and finally if still not found in the defaults hash.
For a “real-world” example lets wrap-up with the config reader snippet from the markdown gem
using the Props class. Example:
class Config
DEFAULTS = { 'libs' => [ 'kramdown' ],
'extnames' => [
'.markdown',
'.m',
'.mark',
'.mkdn',
'.md',
'.mdown',
'.markdn',
'.txt',
'.text' ],
'redcarpet' => {
'extensions' => [
'no_intra_emphasis',
'fenced_code_blocks',
'tables',
'strikethrough' ] }
}
def initialize
@props = @props_default = Props.new( DEFAULTS, 'DEFAULTS' )
## check for user settings in home folder
props_home_file = File.join( Env.home, 'markdown.conf' )
if File.exists?( props_home_file )
puts "Loading settings from '#{props_home_file}'..."
@props = @props_home = Props.load_file( props_home_file, @props )
end
## check for user settings in working (current) folder
props_work_file = File.join( '.', 'markdown.conf' )
if File.exists?( props_work_file )
puts "Loading settings from '#{props_work_file}'..."
@props = @props_work = Props.load_file( props_work_file, @props )
end
end
def markdown_extnames
@props.get( 'extnames' )
end
...
end
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