Rails - Oct 2008 - How to Pass a Large Array from one Action to Another

Good morning everybody, how are you?

Okay, this should be easy.  I am generating a large array in one action,
and I want to pass this array to another action when the user pushes a
button.

@problems is a large array (about 2,000 items) that I need to pass to
the action "buy_cards".  What is the best way to do this? 
I''m pretty
sure it''s too big for a session, and I don''t want to store it
in DB,
since I just need it temporarily:

<%= button_to "Buy Cars", :action => :buy_cars, :car_id =>
@file_id,
:problems => @problems %>

Anyone know a good way to pass a large array from one action to another?
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How about putting a serialized version of it as an attachment using a 
multipart-form? As long as you''re using a POST in your form action
there
shouldn''t be any set limit on the size of data that you''re
posting.

@problems.to_yaml (or @problems.to_json) should give you a textual 
format. Then in the receiving action de-serialize the yaml (or json).

Joe Peck wrote:
> Good morning everybody, how are you?
> 
> Okay, this should be easy.  I am generating a large array in one action,
> and I want to pass this array to another action when the user pushes a
> button.
> 
> @problems is a large array (about 2,000 items) that I need to pass to
> the action "buy_cards".  What is the best way to do this? 
I''m pretty
> sure it''s too big for a session, and I don''t want to
store it in DB,
> since I just need it temporarily:
> 
> <%= button_to "Buy Cars", :action => :buy_cars, :car_id
=> @file_id,
> :problems => @problems %>
> 
> Anyone know a good way to pass a large array from one action to another?
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Joe Peck wrote:
> Good morning everybody, how are you?
> 
> Okay, this should be easy.  I am generating a large array in one action,
> and I want to pass this array to another action when the user pushes a
> button.
> 
> Anyone know a good way to pass a large array from one action to another?
I would recommend serializing it into a temp file on the server and 
reading it back out in the other action. You should be able to serialize 
it with "to_json", and just write it to a file.  Then read it back
into
an array in the other action.  Name the temp file relative to the user 
so you don''t have to worry about a name collision, and then pass the 
path to the temp file in the session.

HTH,
jp
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