Frederick Cheung wrote: > On May 27, 1:46�pm, Mk 27 <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Why a per user database? this could be stored in the database > completely normally. > > Fred
Then I will run into the same "simultaneous" user problem. And it is not data that needs to be kept. Let me flesh this out a bit, as I am sure other people have dealt with almost identical issues: The database contains a list of music albums. The user can view a list of all of them, or they could see a list based on some search criteria (artist or category). I would like to elaborate on this to allow the existing list on view to become more highly customized, using drag and drop, deleting and adding chunks, etc. By default, the list appears sorted alphabetically by title. But the user should also be able to re-sort the existing list based on another criteria -- eg, album length in mb, release date, etc. So rather that just deliver the list as it is requested using an @instance variable, I'm keeping it in the session hash. This way, if they click "Sort by release date", I know what they are looking at and want sorted. AFAIK it looks like I have two options: 1)Move the session data from cookie to Active Record 2)Use the session data to store the previous search terms rather than the whole list, meaning reproduce the list and sort it (which I guess is what I would have done if I had known there was such a tiny limit on the session store size -- at 20-60 bytes per item, it does not take much of list to reach 4k. I was working on a "use memory not processor" bias. I guess that is backward?) Opinions? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
