rubyconfig/config

Is it possible to reference another configuration in a YAML file?

pecuerre opened this issue · 2 comments

pecuerre commented

Let me explain. I think the title might not be clear.

I would like to do something like:

color:
  front: '000000'
  back: 'FFFFFF'
text:
  size: 10
  family: Arial
  color: <%= Settings.color.front %> # or some similar syntax

but when I put this it says uninitialized constant Settings.

is it possible to do that? is it a workaround some how?

basically what i want to do is define one value that depends on another value.

cjlarose commented

YAML itself has support for anchors and references, so in your case you can do something like this:

color:
  front: &front-color '000000'
  back: 'FFFFFF'
text:
  size: 10
  family: Arial
  color: *front-color

See the YAML 1.2 specification section 6.9.2 for more details

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pecuerre commented

Oh, thanks. It didn't occurred to me to look in the YAML documentation.

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