user_config

user_config is a library to manage configuration files in user's home directory for ruby libraries or applications. The format of a configuration file is yaml.

Examples

Create configuration files

The directory '.some_config' is created in the directory ENV['HOME']. And then we save values to the file 'conf.yaml' in the directory.

UserConfig.default('conf.yaml', { 'key1' => 'val1', 'key2' => 'val2' })
uconf = UserConfig.new('.some_config')
uconf.create('conf.yaml')

Similarly, we can create a file 'conf2.yaml'.

UserConfig.default('conf2.yaml', { 'hello' => 'world'})
uconf.create('conf2.yaml')

Load configuration file

We load files in the above example as the following code.

uconf = UserConfig.new('.some_config')
yaml = uconf['conf.yaml']
p yaml['key1']
p yaml['key2']

Set new values and save to files

UserConfig#save_all save all yaml files.

uconf = UserConfig.new('.some_config')
yaml = uconf['conf.yaml']
yaml['key1'] = 'modified_val1'
yaml['key3'] = 'val3'
yaml.save

If we modify some files, we can save all files by UserConfig#save_all.

yaml2 = uconf['conf2.yaml']
yaml2['new_key'] = 'ABCDE'
uconf.save_all

Contributing to user_config

  • Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
  • Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
  • Fork the project
  • Start a feature/bugfix branch
  • Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
  • Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
  • Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright (c) 2011 Takayuki YAMAGUCHI. See LICENSE.txt for further details.