UberConfig is a config loader that will load config files from various locations.

New in 1.0

  • Will look for both yml AND json files
  • Added :ext option to choose config extension
  • Indifferent access so you can use either symbols or strings for keys

Usage

Just run:

config = UberConfig.load

It will look config.yml or config.json by default. You can change what it will look for and where with the different load() options.

Here is the order of where it looks:

  • $abt_config global variable (for https://github.com/iron-io/abt)
  • HTTP url of an IronCache entry set in ENV['CONFIG_CACHE_KEY']
  • TODO: any http url set in ENV['CONFIGURL'], should parse body
  • look at directory set by ENV['CONFIGDIR']
  • look at directory set by cli argument --configdir
  • look for file name set by ENV['CONFIGFILE']
  • look for file name set by cli argument --configfile
  • directory of file that calls UberConfig.load
  • working directory
  • TODO: look at ~/configs/#working_directory_name directory
  • ~/Dropbox/configs/#working_directory_name

:dir can be used to change working_directory_name.