Ruby Best Practices- Issue #4: Writing Configurable Applications (2 of 2)Originally published as part of the Practicing Ruby newsletter on November 18, 2010. Most of these issues draw inspiration from discussions and teaching sessions at my free online school, Ruby Mendicant University. In Issue #3, we discussed the numerous downsides of mixing configuration code with application code. We then went on to discuss how using YAML files can eliminate many of those problems
