Where to initialize session variables?

Hi all,

I would like to initialize some session variables when the user visits the app for the first time. Currently I do it in an application before_filter (escaped if the session already exists), but that occurs for each request, it's dirty.

Do you have any better solution?

Jej

The solution you have seems like a fine answer to me. Simple, standard, and should be pretty easy for any incoming developer to understand. If youve got a method like the following then it probably isn't a big performance drain either.

before_filter :intialize_session_stuff def intialize_session_stuff   return if session_stuff_is_already_set?   .... end