reading a file from my application (silently)

What are your goals with this approach? Is this a configuration thing?

If so, you might look into using YAML for config files and then you can load up your yml file and define variables to access in your application.

Robby

Robby Russell wrote:

What are your goals with this approach? Is this a configuration thing?

If so, you might look into using YAML for config files and then you can load up your yml file and define variables to access in your application.

Robby

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Thanks for your response. The file contains an RSA private key PEM file. I need to read it to digitally sign an authorization token. There may be better ways to do this than reading the file in a controller method, but I wanted to start simply. If it was Jaav, I would read the file in the servlet init method.Not sure what the RoR equivalent should be. I might put something in the environment.rb file ? Basically, something like define the file and then define a constant KEY = file.read ?