configfiles 0.1.0 → 0.2.0

data/Changelog

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+0.2.0
+*  add 'virtual' parameter 
+
+0.1.0
+* first non-alpha release

data/README.rdoc

@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 A simple library to specify the format of configuration files and the 
 way to turn their data into Ruby objects. 
 
-Ruby1.9 centric. "Lazy" to some extent and as needed. 
+Ruby1.9 centric. Uses some lazy evaluation. 
 
 No write support: it's strongly sugested to use ERB or other 
 templating systems for that.
 
-A good example usage is found at http:/github.com/gderosa/dansguardian.rb .
+A good example usage is found at http://github.com/gderosa/dansguardian.rb .
 
 ==Author
 

data/lib/configfiles.rb

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ require 'configfiles/extensions/enumerable'
 
 module ConfigFiles
 
-  VERSION = '0.1.0'
+  VERSION = '0.2.0'
 
   # You should write a read(io) method,
   # taking an IO object and returnig a key-value hash, where keys
@@ -26,9 +26,8 @@ module ConfigFiles
     class ValidationFailed        < ::RuntimeError;   end
     class AlreadyDefinedParameter < ::Exception;      end
     class DefaultAlreadySet       < ::Exception;      end
+    class VirtualParameterFound   < ::RuntimeError;   end
     
-    AlreadyDefinedDefault = DefaultAlreadySet
-
     @@parameters  ||= {}
     @@behavior    ||= {
       :unknown_parameter => :ignore,
@@ -130,6 +129,19 @@ module ConfigFiles
         @@parameters[name][:default] = value
       end
 
+      # Define a parameter as a function of other parameters.
+      # Example:
+      #   virtual :delta do |confdata|
+      #     confdata[:this] - confdata[:that]
+      #   end
+      def virtual(name, &block)
+        parameter name do |str|
+          raise VirtualParameterFound, 
+              "'#{name}' is a virtual parameter, it shouldn't appear directly!"
+        end
+        default name, block 
+      end
+
       # A special kind of parameter, with a special kind of converter, 
       # which in turn
       # converts an Enumerable yielding Strings into an Enumerator of 

metadata

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
   prerelease: false
   segments: 
   - 0
-  - 1
+  - 2
   - 0
-  version: 0.1.0
+  version: 0.2.0
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - Guido De Rosa
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2010-09-14 00:00:00 +02:00
+date: 2010-09-15 00:00:00 +02:00
 default_executable: 
 dependencies: 
 - !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency 
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ extra_rdoc_files:
 - README.rdoc
 files: 
 - README.rdoc
+- Changelog
 - lib/configfiles.rb
 - lib/configfiles/extensions/enumerable.rb
 has_rdoc: true