user_config

user_config is a library to manage configuration files in user's home directory for ruby libraries or applications. The format of a configuration file is yaml.

Behavior

The class UserConfig manages values of configuration, which is handled as a set of hashes and is saved to yaml files in specified directory under user's home directory.

Examples

Simple usage

uconf = UserConfig.new(".some_config")

The directory ~/.some_config is created in the directory ENV['HOME']. To set the value "world" for the key "hello" of ~/.some_config/file.yaml,

uconf["file.yaml"]["hello"] = "world"

The value is not saved to the file. To do that,

uconf["file.yaml"].save

Create initial configuration files

If we want to create initial files with default values, we use the method UserConfig#default.

UserConfig.default('conf.yaml', { 'key1' => 'val1', 'key2' => 'val2' })
uconf = UserConfig.new('.some_config')
uconf.create('conf.yaml')

The file ~/.some_config'/confi.yaml is created. To create another file 'conf2.yaml',

UserConfig.default('conf2.yaml', { 'hello' => 'world'})
uconf.create('conf2.yaml')

Load configuration file

We load files in the above example as the following code.

uconf = UserConfig.new('.some_config')
yaml = uconf['conf.yaml']
p yaml['key1']
p yaml['key2']

Set new values and save to files

UserConfig#save_all save all yaml files.

uconf = UserConfig.new('.some_config')
yaml = uconf['conf.yaml']
yaml['key1'] = 'modified_val1'
yaml['key3'] = 'val3'
yaml.save

If we modify some files, we can save all files by UserConfig#save_all.

yaml2 = uconf['conf2.yaml']
yaml2['new_key'] = 'ABCDE'
uconf.save_all

Behavior like a hash

In internal of UserConfig::YAMLFile, the methods of Hash is called except for some methods.

uconf = UserConfig.new('.some_config')
yaml = uconf['conf.yaml']
yaml.each do |key, val|
  ...
end
yaml.empty?

Contributing to user_config

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Start a feature/bugfix branch
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