That's one way to do it ... Another is to use YAML which has a pretty
heavy following with the Ruby community in general...
So, the following would do the same ...
You can simply use a hash to store things... Here's a quick script to
load up a sample
--SCRIPT--
require 'yaml'
config = Hash.new
config["username"] = "joe"
config["password"] = "pass"
config["foo"] = "bar"
config["baz"] = 5
config["zoo"] = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]
File.open( "config.yaml", "w" ) { |file| file << config.to_yaml }
--SCRIPT--
Then in your normal script you can get to this as simply as:
--SCRIPT--
require 'yaml'
config = YAML.load( File.new( 'config.yaml' ) )
config.each_pair { |key,value| puts "#{ key } -- #{ value }" }
--SCRIPT--
It's that easy ... YAML is pretty cool.
Hope that helps.
j.
On 8/29/05, Kingsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi
>
>
>
> You might find this useful:
>
>
>
> class MissingConfigurationFile < ArgumentError ; end
>
>
>
> class MyConfig
>
>
>
> MyConfig = Struct.new("MyConfig", :property, :value)
>
>
>
> def initialize(config_file)
>
> begin
>
> @config = File.readlines(config_file)
>
> rescue
>
> raise MissingConfigurationFile, "Can't find config file"
>
> end
>
> end
>
>
>
> def parse_config_file
>
> rem_array = []
>
> prop_array = []
>
> @config.each do |line|
>
> if line.match(/^#/)
>
> rem_array << line
>
> else
>
> unless line.match(/^\n$/) then prop_array << line.chomp end
>
> end
>
> end
>
> return prop_array - rem_array
>
> end
>
>
>
> def properties
>
> config_hash = {}
>
> parse_config_file.each do |data|
>
> split = data.split("=")
>
> property = split[0].gsub(/\s*/, "")
>
> value = split[1].gsub(/$\s*/, "").gsub(/^\s*/, "")
>
> config_hash.store(property,MyConfig.new(property, value))
>
> end
>
> return config_hash
>
> end
>
>
>
> end
>
>
>
> myConfig = MyConfig.new("config.txt").properties
>
> config_option_name = myConfig['OPTION_NAME].property
>
> config_option_value = myConfig['OPTION_NAME'].value
>
>
>
> config.txt
>
>
>
> # Lines with a # are ignored
>
> OPTION_NAME = put some value here
>
> OPTION_2 = more options
>
>
>
> Hope it's useful
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Kingsley
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 29 August 2005 06:40
> To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org
> Subject: [Wtr-general] Key / value pairs.
>
>
>
> This email is to be read subject to the disclaimer below.
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm new to Watirr (and Ruby), so forgive me if the question is rather
> simplistic...
>
> What I'd like to do, is to have a configuration file (eg. config.txt),
> which would have a number of key/value pairs, such as "UserName=user", which
> would be read by a test script to, for example, log into a page. Hence, what
> I need, is a method to read each line in a given file; strip off the
> comments (if exist; denoted by #); find the pair based on the key (ie.
> UserName) and get the value (ie. user) and store it in a variable.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Leon
>
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