Where to define global constants in RubyMotion?

Question

I'd like to define global constants in RubyMotion. What is the best way to declare global constants?

If it's Rails, put global constants in config/initializers/constants.rb is common way, I think. Any alternative place in RubyMotion?

Answer 1

There isn't a specific place to put them. I'd recommend creating a config folder and dropping your constants.rb file into that. Then, any constants you define in that file should be available to your classes.

# /app/config/constants.rb
THIS_IS_MY_CONSTANT = "Yep"

# /app/app_delegate.rb
class AppDelegate
  def application(app, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: opt)
    puts THIS_IS_MY_CONSTANT # => "Yep"
  end
end

Answer 2

I agree with Jamon. I created a config folder outside app directory and then added

app.files << Dir.glob("./config/*.rb")

to my Rakefile.