Sean, I think flash.now would be fine for objects because it is only there during the request and is not persisted.
Anthony Crumley http://commonthread.com On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:21 PM, SeanWalberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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%[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]<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.
