Rails store custom configuration permanently

Question

Hi,

I got the following situation: I have an application configuration in my database which is needed on every request. I don't want to query this configuration on every request because of performance issues.

So what I want is to query the data when the application server (mongrel/webbrick/...) starts and store it permanently until the application server is rebooted or stopped. How could I achieve this?

Thanks for any advice

PS: I'm on Rails3

Answer 1

Make a request and store it in the cache.

config_model.rb

  def get_config
    Rails.cache.fetch('the_config'){self.the_config}