Rails - Mar 2008 - Where to set a variable so it's loaded only once and available for all controllers?

Hi,

I''m using GeoIP that loads database file with countries when the GeoIP
object is created. Where should I initialize this object, so it would
be loaded only once (not for every request) and available for all
controllers?

The code looks like this:
geo_ip = GeoIP.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/GeoIP.dat")

Thanks in advance
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> I''m using GeoIP that loads database file with countries when the
GeoIP
> object is created. Where should I initialize this object, so it would
> be loaded only once (not for every request) and available for all
> controllers?
>
> The code looks like this:
> geo_ip = GeoIP.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/GeoIP.dat")
Tail end of environment.rb.  Or in one of the new initializer hooks that 
helps keep it out of environment.rb.

You may want to make that GEO_IP to make it more obvious it''s
"site wide".

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If you put this into environment.rb or one of the new initializer
hooks how to prevent this from running for example if you do a rake
db:migrate?
Chances are that your tables (for your ActiveRecord Objects) are not
there and everything blow up...

Is there a way to ask rails if we run our environment as a migration?

Feurio

On 12 Mrz., 00:51, Philip Hallstrom <phi...-LSG90OXdqQE@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> > I''m using GeoIP that loads database file with countries when
the GeoIP
> > object is created. Where should I initialize this object, so it would
> > be loaded only once (not for every request) and available for all
> > controllers?
>
> > The code looks like this:
> > geo_ip = GeoIP.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/GeoIP.dat")
>
> Tail end of environment.rb.  Or in one of the newinitializerhooks that
> helps keep it out of environment.rb.
>
> You may want to make that GEO_IP to make it more obvious it''s
"site wide".
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>  I''m using GeoIP that loads database file with countries when the
GeoIP
>  object is created. Where should I initialize this object, so it would
>  be loaded only once (not for every request) and available for all
>  controllers?
You could put in the Application Controller.

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