Rails - Jul 2008 - Accessing controller specific variables application-wide

Not sure if I described this the best in the subject, but here is my
problem...

I have a ''settings'' table, that I am storing application
configuration
data. On my settings "edit" page, I am just grabbing the first entry
(you can''t add more entries, again, just a config table)

[code]

@setting = Setting.find(1)

[/code]

I need to access some of that data in the main layout. For instance, the
color (hex) of the template. The "name" of the application, etc.

How would I go about doing that?
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Many ways to do this.
Either declare a before_filter in application.rb and load
the settings every time

before_filter :load_settings

def load_settings
  @setting = Setting.find(1)
end

Or, if you don''t need it that often, you can define a method

def get_settings
  @setting ||= Setting.find(1)
end

This will load the setting the first time it''s called. If it was
called
before, it just returns the @setting

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