[Rails] Global Data, where can it go?

[Juan Lupión]

> This looks like a job for distributed ruby or DRb. You can use a drb
> server that runs on a high port number and published a hash. Then in
> your rails app you can access the hash just like a normal object and
> store and lookup whatever you want in it. This way you can have one
> process that handles your state data that is outside the rails app
> and is persistent between requests.

This is truly interesting.   Is any performance hit to be expected?

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