Hi all, My problem is to try to call a method once per page request. (Context: I want to detect the current lang for localization, and this has to be done on each request, so lang passed through uri can have priority over session, browser prefs or default app lang).
The way I followed is to have an independant class, Locale, which method init is called through an ApplicationController before_filter. Fine. But when I use a render_component in my layout, to render a menu for instance, a second controller is called, and the negociation for the lang is done once more. To avoid this, I'd like to be sure this method is called only once (it wastes ressources, and more, I need to be sure that the lang is consistent through my components on the same page). Rick Bradley suggested : > Seems like a before_filter should be sufficient, simply > > def my_method > return true if @@my_method_called > @@my_method_called = true > # do something > end Rick, your solution is not working, at least here with scgi+apache2 in dev mode. The class vars are not reinited on each request, so once my_method was called, it's not run any more until the server is restarted. In my case this mean you cannot change the lang :p I just tried with webrick and get the same result. That's why I concluded that there should be a hook to call some methods once per page request. Digging in core code, I think it could be around Dispatcher#prepare_application in trunk/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb Opinions ? -- Jean-Christophe Michel _______________________________________________ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core
