Rails - Mar 2009 - Dynamic Config Plugin for Rails - recommendations??? (e.g. storing in database)

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?


-- 
Greg
http://blog.gregnet.org/

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i don''t know of any plugins, but i did the same thing once for a
project of mine. i used your first alternative. my configuration model
had only two attributes: "name" and "value". i only saved
strings. for
config this was sufficient.
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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
<greg.hauptmann.r...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
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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