Rails - Aug 2006 - Where and how to store app wide settings variables?

Hi all

I''d like to know what''s a good way to store app wide settings
variables.
Because for example I have different fields in models that all should be 
20 chars long (validates_length_of :maximum => 20). I don''t want to 
hard-code that, because in future this could change.

So where should I store such vars? In the environment.rb file in 
constants like...?

MAX_NAME_LENGTH = 20

Or are there better ways or even something like a Rails-specific 
construct for such vars?

Thanks for hints. Joshua

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I don''t know of a standard for such a construct, but I created a
constants.rb file in the config directory to hold such information.  The
environment.rb file loads (require) the constants file.  I wanted this
separation because there are settings that are server specific (
environment.rb) and some that are constant (constants.rb) regardless of the
server.

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Thank you for that suggestion. :-)

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