How to set in a middleware a variable accessible in all my application?

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3 and I am trying to use middlewares in order to set a variable @variable_name accessible later in controllers.

For example my midd

Answer 1

I don't know if this can be done with a Middelware. My suggestion would be this:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

  protect_from_forgery

  before_filter :set_my_var

private
  def set_my_var
    @account ||= Account.find(1)
  end

end

This way all your controllers and views have access to @account