Max, Thank you for the insightful answer. Following your answer, I have successfully accomplished my goal by passing value through the session variable.
Happy New Year. Vincent. On Dec 30, 4:48 am, Max Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Every time you make a request, ie call a controller action, your rails > application effectively starts from scratch. There's no persistent > instance data between requests, and the reason for this is obvious: > imagine that you and another person are using the website at the same > time. If objects persisted between requests, how would the server know > which one was yours and which was the other persons? > > That's why almost every action uses params[:id] to load an object from > the db, or uses params from a form to build a new object. > > One seeming exception to this is the session, but even this doesn't > persist - it uses cookies to get a session key which is used to reload > the session data from the sessions table in the database. > -- > Posted viahttp://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.
