Where to put Global variables in Rails 3

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If you have already tried restarting your server as Ryan suggested, try putting it in your application.rb like this:

module MyAppName
  class Application < Rails::Application
    YOUR_GLOBAL_VAR  = "test"
  end
end

Then you can call it with the namespace in your controllers, views or wherever..

MyAppName::Application::YOUR_GLOBAL_VAR

Another alternative would be using something like settingslogic. With settingslogic, you just create a yml config file and a model (Settings.rb) that points to the config file. Then you can access these settings anywhere in your rails app with:

Settings.my_setting

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