Question

I’m trying to access a model for global system settings. It should be loaded in almost every controller. The problem is I can’t find any help on getting rails to load the dam thing.

If this helps, the model is called Config and has two columns; ‘key’ and ‘value’

I come from a background in PHP. I remember codeigniter could load models via.


$this->load->model('a_model_name');


The controllers I’m trying to load the model in do not have the same name as the model.

Answer 1

The problem here is actually the name of the model. Config is used by other Rails classes – see the list of reserved names on the Rails wiki