never mind, I found it.
config is a method call: class Configuration < ConfigManager setting :blog_name, :string, 'My Shiny Weblog!' setting :blog_subtitle, :string, '' setting :default_allow_pings, :bool, false setting :default_allow_comments, :bool, true setting :sp_global, :bool, false setting :sp_article_auto_close, :int, 0 setting :sp_allow_non_ajax_comments, :bool, true setting :sp_url_limit, :int, 0 setting :text_filter, :string, '' setting :comment_text_filter, :string, '' setting :limit_article_display, :int, 10 setting :limit_rss_display, :int, 10 setting :geourl_location, :string, '' setting :link_to_author, :bool, false setting :show_extended_on_rss, :bool, true setting :theme, :string, 'azure' setting :use_gravatar, :bool, false setting :ping_urls, :string, "http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping\nhttp://ping.blo.gs/\nhttp://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2"; setting :send_outbound_pings, :bool, true end def config $config ||= Configuration.new end On 10/29/05, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle at gmail.com> wrote: > People, > > I'm new to Rails so I'm looking at other people's source code. > > I'm poking around in the Rails code for the blog engine named 'typo': > http://typo.leetsoft.com/ > > I'm looking at this file: > http://typo.leetsoft.com/trac/file/trunk/app/controllers/application.rb > > I see: > > before_filter :reload_settings > > which is calling this: > > def reload_settings > config.reload > end > > I'm curious about the object named 'config'. > > I'm trying to figure out if it is a Rails object or Typo object. > > The fact that it has a reload() method suggests to me that is an object > built from an ActiveRecord class. > > I tried poking around with grep and got too many lines back since config > is such a common token. > > What is the config object? > > Anyone know? > > -Dan >
