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Where to store config for a rails plugin

I'm working on a plugin for rails to provide some simple diagnostic information about external systems for purposes of monitoring etc. primarily as an exercise to learn more about rails.

I need to know where config variables for this type of rails plugin belongs, in this case I need to store an array of ip addresses and ports that point at these external services so that I can access it in my plugins controllers e.g.

['127.0.0.1:12345', '192.168.1.1:54321']

I'm currently using Rails 3.1.

Solution

  • You could create a new file in config/initializers, e.g. globals.rb:

    EXTERNAL_SERVICE_IP_1 = "some ip"