App Configuration Setting

Rails
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What is the best way to allow site-wide setting to be changed?

For example, an admin user could be able to set the site theme, the
number of images shown on the landing page, the title of the app,
greeting given etc.

Solutions I can think of are:
Database Solution

A Site model, with only one instance

File Based Solution

Configuration file(s) that can be edited by admins from within the
browser

What do people think or do in their sites?

cheers,

DAZ

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On Jan 15, 2009, at 5:54 AM, DAZ wrote:

A Site model, with only one instance

File Based Solution

Configuration file(s) that can be edited by admins from within the
browser

What do people think or do in their sites?

I use http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/application_config for
things that won’t change frequently… api keys, etc…

Other times I’ve created a Preference model with key/value attributes
and they can edit that…

-philip