Hi,
I am starting with Shoes and I have a basic question. It's about the
scope of variables, and what is self in the methods.
I've tried searching the net, I've read the 5-6 articles about shoes I
found but didn't have an answer for this.
I have this example:
class Test < Shoes
url "/", :index
url "/show", :show
class << self
attr_accessor :b
end
def index
@a = "hello"
Test.b = "goodbye"
button "Do" do
visit "/show"
end
end
def show
alert("a is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]")
alert("b is: #{Test.b}")
alert("self is: #{self}")
end
end
Shoes.app :width => 100, :height => 100, :title => "Title"
The result is that when I click the button the alerts say:
a is:
b is: goodbye
self is: (Test)
I would have thought that @a would be available through different
invocations of urls,
but it seems not. So what is the preferred way of achieving this? I
have it working
with class instance variables (Test.b), but I'm not sure if there's a
better way.
Also an explanation about which instances of which objects are created would
probably help me understand what's going on here.
I have another question about layouts and all that, but I think I'll
send a separate email later.
Thanks,
Jesus.
