OH GOD CHANGE THE NAME! about config HOT 14 CLOSED

Heh, yeah. It's a problem :)

Sorry about that. I originally named it RailsConfig. Then used Config (which conflicted with somethign else). and then Settings.

I really wanted to get the "settings" gem, but unfortunately already taken

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The constant used to be renamable but I remember we ran into some weird issues with that. Perhaps we could give it another try at some point.

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What's wrong with using RailsConfig?

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seems fine to me, running it on rails 3.2.11 with no probs

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Guys, do you still see this as a problem? I personally got used to it pretty quickly, and changing this would break backward compatibility for applications using current version.

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for 1.0 I'd totally support it being changed to RailsConfig, as long as theres an easy config to set a constant Settings that points to it

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the issue I had was the RailsConfig module was being used for the gem, and I needed to set a constant that was the OStruct wrapper thingie. not sure the solution but if you know something clever, that'd be sweet to normalize this

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The options I see here are:

• change the name of the module to RailsConfigurer and use RailsConfig for the struct
• use RailsConfig for the module and Settings for the struct (thats how it is now)
• expose struct as property of RailsConfig, for example RailsConfig.get (equal to current Settings)
• autowire struct into RailsConfig - but this way we loose isolation from settings.yml content and we might expect some method conflicts.

For me the choice you made is fine. Option 1 would be also fair solution. So what's your preference?

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Looking forward this issue, why is this gem called rails_config whereas it't not dedicated to Rails...?

Chances are this name could dissuade Sinatra or Padrino users to even look at the Readme...

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Any other suggested names for the gem and/or global variable? Things like 'config', 'settings' are already taken on Ruby Gems...

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The gem has now been renamed to Config. :)

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👍

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@fredwu have you also change the variable name from Settings to Config? And can you make me an owner on the new gem too, like I was on rails_config? :)

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@pkuczynski Of course! Done! :)

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