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...t. It''s uses are only limited to your creativity ;) Of course you might want to publish a different class then a hash in this AppServer. If you want to do that then just replace this: $application_wide_hash = Slave.new(Hash.new).object with this: $application_wide_hash = Slave.new(MyAppServerObject.new).object The slave library will take care of forking a background process and starting a drb server inside said process. Then the heartbeat takes care of shutting down the AppServer when you shut down rails so you don''t get orphaned AppServers. Of course all the context in your...

All, I have some data that I need to be able to see across the application. For J2EE people out there, I need something that I want to have available in the "application scope" of my app. What is the best way to handle this? I''m trying to access a class variable that I created in my controller from my view (to no avail). Create a class variable in my helper class and use