# See Rails::Configuration for more options?

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**Created:** [February 15, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/see-rails-configuration-for-more-options/53835 "2006-02-15T02:16:48Z")\
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In config/environment.rb it states:

# See Rails::Configuration for more options

See where exactly? I can’t find any docs for it, not at  
[api.rubyonrails.com](http://api.rubyonrails.com) anyway.

Joe

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**Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/see-rails-configuration-for-more-options/53835/2 "2006-02-15T05:32:28Z")

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The class Rails::Configuration can be found in the svn repo in  
railties/lib/initializer.rb around line 342. I’m not sure why  
documentation isn’t posted, but you should be able to read the comments  
in that class.

So an example of turning off colorized logging the rails 1.0 way would  
be to access the ActiveRecord::Base options via ‘config.active\_record’  
in environment.rb. The full line would therefore be:

config.active\_record.colorize\_logging = false

There are lists of more classes that can be accessed in this manner in  
the Configuration class code.

That’s how I understand the workings, but I haven’t seen this documented  
elsewhere.

Hope that helps,

Andy

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**Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 11:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/see-rails-configuration-for-more-options/53835/3 "2006-02-15T11:44:06Z")

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Actually all the documentation for railties is missing from api, there  
must be a reason but still this is sooooo frustrating sometimes.

jean

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**Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/see-rails-configuration-for-more-options/53835/4 "2006-02-15T12:37:53Z")

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Aahhh… thanks. Makes sense now. On my system, it’s in  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.14.2/lib/initializer.rb. Its  
main options are:

```
  self.frameworks = default_frameworks
  self.load_paths = default_load_paths
  self.log_path = default_log_path
  self.log_level = default_log_level
  self.view_path = default_view_path
  self.controller_paths = default_controller_paths
  self.cache_classes = default_cache_classes
  self.breakpoint_server = default_breakpoint_server
  self.whiny_nils = default_whiny_nils
  self.database_configuration_file = 

```

default\_database\_configuration\_file

And you’re right - the Configuration class has many other attr\_accessors  
for other objects like action\_view, action\_mailer, active\_records, etc.

The Configuration class and other classes (like ActiveRecord) have their  
attributes documentated in the files, but they apparently didn’t make it  
to the docs at [api.rubyonrails.org](http://api.rubyonrails.org) (I didn’t see ‘colorize\_logging’  
there either). Guess we’ll have to wade through the source to figure  
them out until the docs hopefully include them in the future.

Joe