[Rails] Re: Where to store some static data needed for the app

comopasta Gr wrote in post #1024192:
> I guess I could make a small module and require it, but then I need to
> require it two times. I'm starting to think about memory even though for
> this it would be very cheap anyway.

Sounds like you're confusing "include" with "require". You could
"require" a file 50 times, but Ruby would loading it only once.

If you create a ruby module in would use "include" to include the module
into a class. But, it seems like a bit of overkill to create a module
that containing no methods, but only a single constant. I think I'd
simply put the constant on whatever class is dealing with your color
pallets.

Example:

class MyController
DARK_PALETTE = {
:background => "323232",
:header => "4d4c4d"
}
...
...
end

Then from anywhere else you need the constant:

MyController::DARK_PALETTE

The other, probably better, option would be to setup a custom
configuration YAML file that includes all your application specific
constants that gets loaded at startup. That way application wide
settings are separated from the application's code.

There was a Railscasts episode a good while back that showed an example
of setting up a YAML Configuration File:

http://railscasts.com/episodes/85-yaml-configuration-file

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