[Catalyst] Working with project configuration file outside ofCatalyst directory

[Octavian Rasnita]

There may be other ways, but you could create a separate configuration file that contains the database connection settings only and include that configuration file in both the master configuration and Catalyst configuration files.
If you'll want to change the database connection settings, you will need to change it in a single place.

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leandro Hermida" <softdev at leandrohermida.com>
To: "The elegant MVC web framework" <catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 7:49 PM
Subject: [Catalyst] Working with project configuration file outside ofCatalyst directory


> Dear all,
> 
> My apologies if I haven't seen the post with the answer, I've looked
> all over and get explanations for not exactly the same thing. I have a
> big project of which the Catalyst application is only a part.  I want
> a master configuration file for the project which has configuration of
> things independent of Catalyst (e.g. the database connection and
> related info) and of course this configuration file lives outside of
> the Catalyst application directory.  Catalyst will have its
> configuration file in the application directory e.g. my_app.conf and
> this file with have only configuration related to Catalyst and I
> Catalyst to be able to draw from the master project configuration file
> outside to get for example onfiguration for connecting to the database
> because this shouldn't be in my_app.conf.
> 
> Configuration shouldn't be anywhere twice and project code outside the
> Catalyst sub-project shouldn't have any knowledge of Catalyst at all
> and shouldn't go get configuration inside Catalyst, it should be the
> other way around (the only explanations I've seen take the former
> approach).  Is there a way to do this?
> 
> best,
> Leandro
> 
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