Charley Baker wrote:
Chris has some salient points. Another advantage of using a delimited
file that you can use through Excel is version control. Using a
delimited file makes it easier to diff and/or merge through Subversion
or whatever your SCM tool might be as opposed to using an Excel
In another thread I described how I handle that problem.
I maintain the constants and variables in an Excel sheet.
But I have a macro on the sheet that writes those out to another file.
You have a choice at that point: to have the macro write all or part of your
.RB file and execute it, as I am
that comes with Ruby.
--Mark
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Thanks for all your replies.
I will look in to using
That is what I have at the minute, but I am under pressure to use a
Spreadsheet. I thought that the text file was a much better and more simple
idea.
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On 12/6/06, Fletch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is what I have at the minute, but I am under pressure to use a
Spreadsheet. I thought that the text file was a much better and more simple
idea.
There is a fair amount in the archives on this subject.
My own opinion is to use a spreadsheet
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That is what I have at the minute, but I am under pressure to use a
Spreadsheet. I thought that the text file was a much better and more simple
idea.
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Chris has some salient points. Another advantage of using a delimited file
that you can use through Excel is version control. Using a delimited file
makes it easier to diff and/or merge through Subversion or whatever your SCM
tool might be as opposed to using an Excel file.
-Charley
On 12/6/06,
Fletch wrote:
That is what I have at the minute, but I am under pressure to use a
Spreadsheet. I thought that the text file was a much better and more simple
idea.
A comma-delimited (comma-separated-value / csv) file is a great
compromise, as was mentioned earlier. A spreadsheet
Hello Again,
I have currently got a WATIR Script running, and use a text file to hold all
the constants.
However I have had a request to change this text file to a Spreadsheet - does
it make sense to use a spreadsheet to hold all the constants? From what I have
seen, I would have to call the
If these are just a couple of simple constants why not make it a ruby file?
require a file somewhere in your scripts and do something like
$name = 'name'
$password = 'password'
$url = 'url'
its easy to figure out, and no need to parse anything.
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