Rails - Jul 2006 - loading file at start ?

Hello,

A simple question ... I would like to load a file at the initialization 
of my app, to populate and share an Hash in all my app.

Where to do this kind of initialization ?


I did something like @@myVar=File.open .... at the end of  the file 
config/environment.rb , correct ?

thanks
arnaud

Arnaud Garcia wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A simple question ... I would like to load a file at the initialization
> of my app, to populate and share an Hash in all my app.
> 
> Where to do this kind of initialization ?
> 
> 
> I did something like @@myVar=File.open .... at the end of  the file
> config/environment.rb , correct ?
> 
> thanks
> arnaud
Define a little class for and stick in /lib it like so

  #/lib/my_loader_thing.rb
  class MyLoaderThing
    cattr_accessor :data
    def self.load
      @@data = {
        :foo => ''bar''
        :baz => ''bingo''
      }
    end
  end

Now in your environment.rb, at the bottom:

  require ''my_loader_thing''
  MyLoaderThing.load

Now throughout your app you can use that class attribute accessor like 
so:

  MyLoaderThing.data[:foo] #=> "bar"

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