Hi, Iam a nubie, i wanna know how can i load/read a .properties file in to my rails application. For example i have a property file where i have defined the spanish equivalants of some english words as follows user Name:nombre del usuario user Code :c?digo del usuario likewise. now , where should i store this properties file in the directory structure and how can i read these in to my application and display in the view page accordingly? Thanks in Advance Sathya -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
When you say .properties file, what format is it in? Your example looks a lot like YAML, which Ruby has good support for, for instance. If it were a YAML file, you could just open the file into a YAML object (which you can find out about here http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/yaml/rdoc/index.html) and parse it as such. XML would also be relatively easily parsable. At worst case, you could parse the .properties file with some form of regex. Does that help? Any more questions, based on those ideas? On 08/08/06, Sathya <sathya.kishore@lgcnsglobal.com> wrote:> > Hi, > > Iam a nubie, i wanna know how can i load/read a .properties file in to > my rails application. For example i have a property file where i have > defined the spanish equivalants of some english words as follows > > user Name:nombre del usuario > user Code :c?digo del usuario > > likewise. now , where should i store this properties file in the > directory structure and how can i read these in to my application and > display in the view page accordingly? > > > Thanks in Advance > Sathya > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
Hi Tom,
Good Morning. well,the .properties file i mention is just a text file
similar to in Java where we load a .properties file in to a class and
parse accordingly.
First of all, i would like to know where should i place this .properties
file,its exact physical location in the directroy structure of my rails
application?
Now i am able to find a piece of code to load a .properties file using
ruby
as follows
def load_properties(properties_filename)
properties = {}
File.open(properties_filename, ''r'') do |properties_file|
properties_file.read.each_line do |line|
line.strip!
if (line[0] != ?# and line[0] != ?=)
i = line.index(''='')
if (i)
properties[line[0..i - 1].strip] = line[i + 1..-1].strip
else
properties[line] = ''''
end
end
end
end
properties
end
But i dont know how from where should i load this file ? and where
should i write this code, is it in the controller or model?
if possible, tell me how can i parse an xml file as .properties file
Awaiting your reply
Sathya
Tom Armitage wrote:> When you say .properties file, what format is it in? Your example
> looks a lot like YAML, which Ruby has good support for, for instance.
> If it were a YAML file, you could just open the file into a YAML
> object (which you can find out about here
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/yaml/rdoc/index.html) and parse
> it as such.
>
> XML would also be relatively easily parsable.
>
> At worst case, you could parse the .properties file with some form of
> regex.
>
> Does that help? Any more questions, based on those ideas?
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Can you not just put it in the config dir? And just read from there. Also, it strikes me that it would be far easier to take an objective view on it and say, well, rails doesnt support .properties, im not working in java, so i best use YAML, which it has great support for and would save me a whole heap of work as all the class files exsist to manipulate YAML. The only reason you might want to use .properties is if you were porting from a java app and you have thousands of strings in the file which you didnt want to convert to YAML - unless this is the case just seems like YAML would be the better option, would certainly yeild more flexibility. Furthermore, if you want to use it for internationalisation, take a look at the ''globalize'' plugin. There is as yet no support in rails for multi-language like there is in java. Cheers Tim -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---