Hello,
I want to initialize a giant hash on application startup, and have a controller interact with that hash WITHOUT having to rebuild the hash for every single request. Generating the hash will be a bit time consuming, so I want it built and immutable as soon as I launch the server.
What is the "rails" way of doing this?
Thank You for reading,
- M
Memcached - it is a scalable hash/dictionary that is easily shared
between multiple instances.
Marc Cloudcache.net
Use a session.
Julian.
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Create an initializer. Rails will load any file you dump in RAILS_ROOT/ config/initializers/ when the server starts. That, I believe, would be the most "rails way"-ish way.
-Danimal
P.S. Back in the early Rails days, I used to drop a lot of initialization stuff at the end of environments.rb, i.e. custom date displays, reference values, global constants, etc. Now I put 'em in an initializer... just better organized, IMHO.