Sinatra with a persistent variable

Question

My sinatra app has to parse a ~60MB XML-file. This file hardly ever changes: on a nightly cron job, It is overwritten with another one.

Are there tricks or ways to

Answer 1

You could try:

configure do
  @@nokogiri_object = parse_xml
end

Then @@nokogiri_object will be available in your request methods. It's a class variable rather than an instance variable, but should do what you want.