# Rails startup

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-startup/162821>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 14, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-startup/162821 "2009-03-14T06:05:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![difei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@difei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/difei)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-startup/162821/1 "2009-03-14T06:05:49Z")

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Greetings,

I am wondering if there is a way to initiate a pre-stored key/value  
pair from mysql to memcached during the boot procedure of rails? Thanks  
in advance.

Cheers,  
Difei

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**Author:** ![difei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@difei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/difei)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-startup/162821/2 "2009-03-14T14:12:13Z")

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Difei Z. wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I am wondering if there is a way to initiate a pre-stored key/value  
> pair from mysql to memcached during the boot procedure of rails? Thanks  
> in advance.
> 
> Cheers,  
> Difei

Sure, just add an initializer to config/initializers.