Where to put global Hash variable in Rails application

Question

I need a place to keep last request time for user and don't want to use database for that

Answer 1

You can use memcache for this.

Answer 2

if you want to do this user-wise, and don't mind losing it between sessions, then the place to store it is a session like session[:last_request]

Answer 3

Thanks... I got it ... there is no easy solution .. I will use database :)

Answer 4

There is an easy solution - you can put it as a constant in config/environment.rb

Answer 5

there is an easy way (although not so elegant)

if Thread.main[:uuid] == nil 
  Thread.main[:uuid]=0
end
uid = Thread.main[:uuid] += 1

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