IniFile

IniFile is a class for reading and writing .ini files with various options on how to read/write them.

Features:

• different name/value delimiters (default is '=')
• support for number sign comments (default is ';')
• handlers for duplicate names (overwrite, concat and to_array)
• different section delimiters (default is '.') for hierarchy
• customizable intendation string (default: ' ')

Behaviour:

• blank lines are ignored
• whitespaces are ignored
• comments are ignored
• single and double quotes around values are deleted
• duplicate names by default raises an IndexError

If you want to preserve the format of your .ini file try Anthony Williams's iniparse.

Reading

config = IniFile.open(path) # or
app = IniFile.open(path) { |config| App.new config }

Writing

File.open(path, 'w') { |file| IniFile.dump config, file }

See rdoc for options on open and dump.

TODO

See IniFile::TODO.