App level configuration for your Rails apps
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:
And at the bottom of your /config/environment.rb:
Now your YAML variables are accessible anywhere from your controllers or views like so:
Easy peasy.
1 require 'yaml'
And at the bottom of your /config/environment.rb:
1 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:
1 APP_CONFIG["variable"]
Easy peasy.
