Well I was way off. Sorry John.
--Tom
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:40 PM, John Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:12 PM, _why <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:39:01PM -0400, John Wells wrote:
> >> I've read the NKS cover to cover, but think I might be misunderstanding
> scope.
> >>
> >> For example, in the lastest (git pull; rake) version of shoes, this
> code:
> >> #############################
> >> class MyApp < Shoes
> >> url "/", :index
> >> url "/next", :next
> >>
> >> def index
> >> @x = edit_line
> >> para(link("next", :click=>"/next"))
> >> end
> >>
> >> def next
> >> begin
> >> alert (@x.text)
> >> rescue Exception=>e
> >> puts e
> >> end
> >> end
> >> end
> >>
> >> Shoes::app
> >> #############################
> >>
> >> Outputs "undefined method `text' for nil:NilClass" on the console. So
> >> @x is nil. However, if I read NKS correctly, especially page 36, @x
> >> should still exist and the text should be accessible.
> >
> > Since @x is created at the "/" URL, you can't access it from the
> > "/next" URL. It's actually not a matter of scoping, it's that there
> > are two objects here.
> >
> > "/" => MyApp.new.index
> > "/next" => MyApp.new.next
> >
> > Perhaps it would be better to have one object. I'll have to think
> > about this a bit further.
>
>
> Interesting. So what would be the recommended way of sharing data
> between urls? Global variables or something along those lines?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
