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App level configuration for your Rails apps (See related posts)

Hard coding stuff into your view templates isn't a great idea, and sometimes you want it out of your layouts too. If you have variables your app requires, but which may change between deployments, put them in /config/appconfig.yml in YAML format, then put this at the top of your /config/environment.rb:

require 'yaml'


And at the bottom of your /config/environment.rb:

APP_CONFIG = YAML::load(File.open("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/appconfig.yml"))


Now your YAML variables are accessible anywhere from your controllers or views like so:

APP_CONFIG["variable"]


Easy peasy.
to rails rubyonrails yaml configuration config by peter on Fri Aug 05 00:14:09 -0400 2005

Comments on this post

bricolage posts on Aug 28, 2005 at 21:04
I use a slightly different version of this that is a combo of the Snippets version (above) and the ERb-aware version taken from environment.rb. I elected to symbolize the keys as well for easy repetitive use.

APP_CONFIG = YAML::load(ERB.new((IO.read("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/settings.yml"))).result).symbolize_keys

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