class variables refreshed in development, but how exception_notification does it?

Hi,

I discovered today that Rails class variables are refreshed in development mode (because classes are reloaded). How else can you persist class variables in memory? I know it is possible, because the exception_notification plugin does it. I don't think they use session variables, because I dumped the session object and it looked like the info that I was looking for wasn't there. They also don't use a database.

Thanks, Tiberiu

If a file is in one of the paths listed in Dependencies.load_once_paths then the classes defined inside aren't reloaded. By default this includes where plugins are. In general persisting class variables in memory (other than just for caching stuff) isn't a great idea (because they aren't shared across mongrels/ fastcgi instances /etc...)

Fred