On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Moritz Reiter wrote: > Hi, > > I'm pretty new to ruby and want to program some some linux shell tools > in ruby as exercise. For these tools I want to be able to specify > options as parameters on the command line or in a config file. > I already discovered OptionParser to parse the command line options. > > Can someone give me suggestions which classes to look at to simplify the > task of parsing a configuration file for options? > > Regards, > mo harp:~ > cat a.rb #! /usr/bin/env ruby require 'yaml' config = 'config.yml' options = YAML.load(IO.read(config)) y options harp:~ > cat config.yml --- key : value a : b harp:~ > ruby a.rb a: b key: value -a -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. - the dalai lama