It would seem to do what I'm looking for, though was the flash meant for objects? Either way, I'll look at the implementation to see if I can use similar methods.
Thanks, Sean On Apr 12, 5:07 pm, Anthony Crumley <[email protected]> wrote: > Sean, > > Would flash.now work? > > http://apidock.com/rails/ActionController/Flash/FlashHash/now > > Anthony Crumleyhttp://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%2Bunsubscrib > > [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.
