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From: Roberto Cm on 19 Apr 2010 14:24
I'm wondering how to extend the config-yaml parser at
http://www.mjijackson.com/2010/02/flexible-ruby-config-objects so I can
write to the file through the variable.

right now it works like this:

yaml_data = "
---
database: mydb
auth:
user: myuser
pass: mypass
"

require 'yaml'
config = Config.new(YAML.load(yaml_data))

config.auth.user # "myuser"


and I want to add some magic so I can do this instead:

config = Config.new(yaml_filename_variable)
config.a = "test"
p config.a
=> "test"
config.write()
config = nil
config = Config.new(yaml_filename_variable)
p config-a
=> "test"


to load the file on new(), I changed the class like this:

require 'yaml'

class ConfigYaml

def initialize(file)
if file.nil?? then
yaml_conf = YAML.load_file(file)
end
@data = case yaml_conf.nil?
when true then YAML.load_file(file)
else {}
end
update!(data)
end

private
...
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From: Brian Candler on 19 Apr 2010 16:44
Roberto Cm wrote:
> to load the file on new(), I changed the class like this:
>
> require 'yaml'
>
> class ConfigYaml
>
> def initialize(file)
> if file.nil?? then
> yaml_conf = YAML.load_file(file)
> end
> @data = case yaml_conf.nil?
> when true then YAML.load_file(file)
> else {}
> end
> update!(data)
> end

That looks a bit broken - 'data' is a local variable or method, which
you don't seem to have, which is different from @data which is an
instance variable.

You could try this as a starting point:

class ConfigYaml
def initialize(file)
@filename = file
load
end

def load
@data = YAML.load_file(@filename)
rescue Errno::ENOENT
@data = {}
end

def save
File.open(@filename,"w") { |f| f.write YAML.dump(@data) }
end

... rest as before
end
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From: Roberto Cm on 19 Apr 2010 18:27
Brian Candler wrote:
> That looks a bit broken - 'data' is a local variable or method, which
> you don't seem to have, which is different from @data which is an
> instance variable.

yea it's a typo. Thanks for the rescue though! --

> rescue Errno::ENOENT

-- The problem with the save method is .. well actually nothing, I need
that too :) But I want to not have to explicitly call save, and instead
have the object detect changes and behave dynamically -- ie, assignment
to the config instance should write directly to disk as well as to the
attribute during the set_x methods.

But how do I change setter methods that don't exist yet?
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