Sean, Would flash.now work?
http://apidock.com/rails/ActionController/Flash/FlashHash/now Anthony Crumley http://commonthread.com On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:11 PM, SeanWalberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to move some of my application's code into a plugin, > specifically the part that deals with web analytics. Some of the > features allow the controller to fire events that get displayed in the > views as JS code through a partial or helper. I'm currently doing this > with instance variables, but when I move it to a class or instance > variable of my plugin class, it persists between requests. I guess > this makes sense because the plugin is loaded on startup. > > What I have working is making it an instance variable of > ApplicationController: > > class MyPlugin > ApplicationController.instance_variable_set("@my_plugin_event", > nil) > end > > which is cleared on every request. It works, but I feel like I'm > working against the grain here and doing something wrong. > > Is what I'm doing OK, or is there a better way? To make it clear, I > want to be able to do something like "notice_event('blah')" in the > controller of the main application, and have the plugin's helper know > about "blah" for the current request, but not the next request. > > Thanks > > Sean > > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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.
