I've used the rails-settings plugin before - very easy to use, and
stores
settings as YAML, so they hold whatever datatype you put in.

http://github.com/Squeegy/rails-settings/tree/master

--Matt Jones


On Mar 5, 2:02 am, Greg Hauptmann <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Wondering if there is an existing plugin/approach for config data that you
> want your application to be able to change?  In other words a value/pair
> type configuration plugin that persists to the database.
> Just a normal Model would be OK, however any neat tricks how to handle the
> fact that each parameter may be a different type?  e.g. have a column in the
> model to hold the type & store value as a string?  have a different column
> for each type but then any given parameter (or row in database terms) would
> populate only one of the columns?
>
> --
> Greghttp://blog.gregnet.org/
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