Here’s one way
You can make your own yaml file
yml file might look like this
production:
email_server: smtp.mycompany.com
Then load the configuration file in environment.rb (or in a model, or something else)
c = YAML::load(File.open(File.dirname(FILE) + “/my_config.yml”))
c is now a hash… so get the values from the hash
server = c[RAILS_ENV][“email_server”]
I’ve got a writup on something like this for email configs.
http://www.bphogan.com/learn/pdf/tableless_contact_form.pdf
There’s also a plugin that lets you do system settings:
http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/system_settings
but I’ve not used that one.
