Maybe, but does that benefit you? Constants aren't allowed to be set more than once (when you first define them), so using one as a DB connection might potentially cause problems if you ever reset it. It's also "unfashionable" in Ruby land to use constants over instance variables for this work.
-- Eric On 1/26/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/26/07, Lennon Day-Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That way, your connection will only be established once per model > > class, and will stay open between requests. Alternately, you could set > > @@dbh instead of @dbh, which would open just one connection for all > > your model classes, but you might have problems handling multiple > > simultaneous requests through a single active database handle. > > Thanks, I learned something new! Would it be okay to use a constant > DBH to represent the database handle? > > James > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
