already initialized constant, and required twice - sinatra

Question

Hi, all,
i think this is a bug about the constant defined in sinatra, let's look my code.
route.rb
require 'sinatra'
get '/' do
C = "this is a test for constant"
"Hello World!"
end
Gemfile
source 'http://rubygems.org'
gem 'rack'
gem 'sinatra'
config.ru
require './route'
run Sinatra::Application
Starting the web server, we will see the below
$ rackup
[2011-10-08 19:54:36] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2011-10-08 19:54:36] INFO ruby 1.9.2 (2011-07-09) [i686-linux]
[2011-10-08 19:54:36] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=3268 port=9292
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Oct/2011 19:54:42] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 25 0.0059
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Oct/2011 19:54:42] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 25 0.0142
/home/zcdny/repo/test/route.rb:4: warning: already initialized constant C
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Oct/2011 19:54:43] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 25 0.0094
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Oct/2011 19:54:43] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 25 0.0098
/home/zcdny/repo/test/route.rb:4: warning: already initialized constant C
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Oct/2011 19:54:55] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 25 0.0003
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Oct/2011 19:54:55] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 25 0.0006
/home/zcdny/repo/test/route.rb:4: warning: already initialized constant C
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Oct/2011 19:54:56] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 25 0.0003
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Oct/2011 19:54:56] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 25 0.0005
Eidt
Fixing the file route.rb
require 'sinatra'
configure do
C = "this is a test for constant"
end
get '/' do
"Hello World!"
end
Now, the server no longer warning the constant be initialized.
But the log of server still appears double 'GET' require ,
i just want it requires for one to every client required, that is my question, How to solve it.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

What's wrong about that? If you define the constant twice (which happens if you have two GET requests or a GET and a HEAD request) then that warning will be displayed. You global variables instead. But if you don't have to, try to avoid global state at all cost, otherwise you might run in architectural issues (what if you want to serve more endpoints and globals clash) and make it hard to scale: if you rely on the internal state of a process, will you be able to serve the website from two processes? what about two machines?