@@ -4,6 +4,24 @@ Configuration Use Sinatra's "set" option -------------------------- +Configure blocks are not executed in the event context, and don't have access +to the same instance variables. To store a piece of information that you want +to access in your routes, use `set`. + + configure :development do + set :dbname, 'devdb' + end + + configure :production do + set :dbname, 'productiondb' + end + +... + + get '/whatdb' do + 'We are using the database named ' + options.dbname + end + External config file via the configure block -------------------------------------------- book/Configuration.markdown 01aafb08c3c80895127efbdf6ee853b0a89f8a33 Neal Lindsay neal.lindsay@gmail.com http://github.com/cschneid/sinatra-book/commit/ccbcd5edbc2a51244a9d10946eac8505ed2ef769 ccbcd5edbc2a51244a9d10946eac8505ed2ef769 2009-01-14T15:24:09-08:00 2009-01-13T05:46:20-08:00 basic configuration example Signed-off-by: Chris Schneider <chris@christopher-schneider.com> dd73395f6bec79ba16a9b2fa33a2390cf497049e Chris Schneider chris@christopher-schneider.com