How should I handle config files with Sinatra?

[Kurt Mackey]

I've been digging around, but can't seem to find the "blessed" way of
specifying configuration settings for Sinatra apps. Has anyone
written a blog post or anything about that?

[Damon Clinkscales]

Kurt,

Not sure if this is blessed or not, but I just do:

configure do
load_config "./config.yml"
end

def load_config(file)
if File.exist?(file)
yaml = YAML.load_file(file)
ENV['SOMETHING'] = yaml['something']
end
end

If there is a better way, I'd love to hear.

-damon

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[Blake Mizerany]

You can use Sinatra's built in options Hash:

configure do
  set :myopt => 'foo',
        :another => 'bar'
end

get '/' do
  x = Sinatra.options[:myopt]
  ...
end

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