# RProperties 0.0.1 Released **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 4, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rproperties-0-0-1-released/159384 "2009-02-04T02:43:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twgnunes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@twgnunes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/twgnunes)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rproperties-0-0-1-released/159384/1 "2009-02-04T02:43:17Z")
Hello everybody! The first release of RProperties is on the RubyForge now on [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rproperties/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rproperties/) ! RProperties is a simple (very simple) implementation of the Java Properties feature. In this first release i just put the VERY basic functionality but i´m working to do more things on it. Just to exemplify a use of RProperties : 1. Imagine that you have a .properties file containing : site\_name = My Crazy Blog About Ruby site\_author = Barack Obama author\_email = removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid 2. Using RProperties : require ‘r\_properties’ rp = RProperties.new(“my\_file.properties”); rp.load\_p; puts “The name of my site is #{rp.get\_p(“site\_name”)}” That´s All! I know that i have too much work to do and i hope that everybody help on it. - tiago ---
**Author:** ![twgnunes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@twgnunes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/twgnunes)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rproperties-0-0-1-released/159384/2 "2009-02-04T13:21:59Z")
> Hello everybody! > The first release of RProperties is on the RubyForge now on > [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rproperties/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rproperties/) ! Great! But I don’t really get the advantage of RProperties over built in yaml+hash for example (or yaml+struct, or… whatever): store: props = {:site\_name =\> “My Crazy Blog About Ruby”, :site\_author =\> “Barack Obama”, :author\_email =\> “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid”} open(‘my\_props.yml’,‘w’) {|f| f.write props.to\_yaml} load: rp = YAML::load(open(‘my\_props.yml’)) puts rp[:site\_name] puts rp[:site\_author] etc. the yaml file almost looks like the java properties file: * * * :site\_name: " My Crazy Blog About Ruby" :site\_author: Barack Obama :author\_email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Peter * * * [http://www.rubyrailways.com](http://www.rubyrailways.com) [http://scrubyt.org](http://scrubyt.org) ---
**Author:** ![twgnunes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@twgnunes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/twgnunes)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 1:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rproperties-0-0-1-released/159384/3 "2009-02-04T13:43:12Z")
You are completly right Peter! But my intention to make rproperties is to mantain the java way and , with this, convence more java users here in brazil to migrate to ruby, and migrating , they will be completly free to use the ruby ways and discover this wonderfull language , that i prefer too! Peter , here in Brazil i am finding a hard resistence with the java users to migrate to Ruby. I guess that in a group of 100 developers here , 10 are tendencious to migrate to ruby,15 says that will take a look but always says : tomorrow , tomorrow i’ll see some and 75 just will change when ruby pays more that java. - tiago ---
**Author:** ![twgnunes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@twgnunes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/twgnunes)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rproperties-0-0-1-released/159384/4 "2009-02-04T16:39:14Z")
Dominik, I just put the ideas on the air and i’m open to sugestions etc… This is the first release and i know that i have too much work to do and if somebody have other ideas please , lets talk! - tiago On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:33:21 +0900, Dominik H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![twgnunes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@twgnunes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/twgnunes)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rproperties-0-0-1-released/159384/5 "2009-02-04T15:34:36Z")
> But my intention to make rproperties is to mantain the java way and , with > this, convence more java users > here in brazil to migrate to ruby, and migrating , they will be completly > free to use the ruby ways and discover this wonderfull language , that i > prefer too! I doubt that people coming from Java will discover the beauty of Ruby if they are able to use things like RProperties. And in my opinion, something like #get\_p(…) is not Ruby-like at all. The proper way would be to actually show them how it is done in Ruby’s way. > site\_name = My Crazy Blog About Ruby > site\_author = Barack Obama > author\_email = removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid By simply adding “” around the values, you could even use this kind of format with, e.g., instance\_eval and provide an interface like the following: Properties.site\_name to get the value of site\_name, which is way nicer than get\_p(‘site\_name’) ---
**Author:** ![twgnunes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@twgnunes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/twgnunes)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rproperties-0-0-1-released/159384/6 "2009-02-04T16:45:08Z")
Dominik, you said: “… By simply adding “” around the values, you could even use this kind of format with, e.g., instance\_eval and provide an interface like the following: Properties.site\_name to get the value of site\_name, which is way nicer than get\_p(‘site\_name’) …” And i was think thats can be a good way. - tiago