On 19/04/2007, at 5:03 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> Jon Tirsen wrote:
>> Sure, my patch is only about fixing the fact that there are a lot
>> more things you can do with the Configuration object than you can do
>> with the "DSL". I definitely don't need "per-task" configurations.
>>
>> In general the war.rb "DSL" is a bit quirky. I think something along
>> the lines of the standard config/environment.rb would be more
>> familiar to Rails developers. That would have the added benefit that
>> we wouldn't need to mirror the API of War::Configuration into a
>> special War::Configuration DSL.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> War::Configuration.setup do |config|
>> config.add_jetty_library(config.java_library('jetty', '6.6.1'))
>> # ... etc ...
>> end
>
> What about YAML?
>
> - Charlie
Once again I would compare to config/environment.rb. There's a good
reason very little configuration files are YAML in Rails (only
database.yml, and I would argue even that is a mistake). Having your
configuration file in Ruby is very powerful as you can handle
environment specific configurations (loading AR-JDBC if you're
running JRuby etc), create functions and abstractions for repeated
configuration options and so on. database.yml gets around this by
actually being an erb file, so that you can still break out to do
smarter stuff in Ruby.
Cheers,
Jon
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