Ruby on Rails: Where to define global constants?

Question

I\'m just getting started with my first Ruby on Rails webapp. I\'ve got a bunch of different models, views, controllers, and so on.

I\'m wanting to find a good plac

Answer 1

Use a class method:

def self.colours
  ['white', 'red', 'black']
end

Then Model.colours will return that array. Alternatively, create an initializer and wrap the constants in a module to avoid namespace conflicts.