site_config

Site configuration made easy!

Install the plugin:

script/plugin install git://github.com/cheald/site_config.git

Edit your config/site_config.yml with your desired preferences. One key is special: "inherit". This will cause a given environment to inherit settings from another environment, unless overridden.

Presume you have the following site_config.yml

base: foo: bar

development: inherit: base barry: white

production: inherit: development foo: baz

You can then call the following in your code:

config_option(:foo)

If you're in development, you get "bar" (inherited from base). If you're in production, you get "baz" (local to the production configuration).

If you want to get a config option for an environment other than the one you're running in, config_option takes an optional second parameter.

config_option(:foo, :development) => "bar" # Inherited from base config_option(:barry, :development) => "white" # Local config_option(:foo, :production) => "baz" # Local config_option(:barry, :production) => "white" # Inherited from development

You'll need to restart your app after each change; the config file is only read once in order to maximize performance.

Enjoy!