and their PHP equivalents.

Site-Wide Global Variables in Ruby on Rails

For the sites built using PHP, it’s common practice to include a common config.php file which contains global variables accessible on every page, for example:

<?php
// config.php
$site_name = "Random Sequence";
$site_url = "http://www.randomsequence.com";
?>

To display these global variables in a view:

<?php echo $site_name; ?>

<?php echo $site_url; ?>

To replicate this functionality in Rails, you can define methods in the site-wide `/app/helpers/application_helper.rb`, for example:

# Methods added to this helper will be available to all templates in the application.
module ApplicationHelper
  def site_name
    "Random Sequence"
  end

  def site_url
    "http://www.randomsequence.com"
  end  
end

To use these helpers in your view:

<%= site_name %>

<%= site_url %>

Site-Wide Global Variables in Ruby on Rails

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