[Dancer-users] Plugin::Database - suggestion to read username/password from a different file

[David Precious]

On Thursday 22 September 2011 22:35:20 Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello Dancers,
> 
> Somewhat related to the "sensitive" config data in SCM" topic discussed
> recently, I would like to suggest the followng small patch to
> "Dancer::Plugin::Database" :
> 
> Instead of specifying "username/password" in your yml config file, I've
> added a new setting called "credentials". This one points to a simple text
> file that would contain the user name and password.

That sounds like a sensible idea - allowing the less sensitive config data in 
config.yml to be checked in to version control, without worrying about the 
database connection details being leaked.

Thanks for this idea and patch - sorry for the slow reply, I will get this new 
feature incorporated soon.

Cheers

Dave P

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