[Rails] Re: Best approach to providing app congurations?

2009-08-27 Thread James West
Matt Harrison wrote: > > I have no idea if this is the best method by any means, but I have used > it before with no problems: > > I created a model called AppConfig which had an id, a key and a value. I > could set the key to the name of the configuration (such as > "allow_new_signups") and the

[Rails] Re: Best approach to providing app congurations?

2009-08-26 Thread Matt Harrison
James West wrote: > This is more about theory than coding so I hope I have the right place. > I would very much appreciate some input as to the best approach on how > to offer different options in my app depending on configuration criteria > and current user. > > Some examples of what I want to d