Rails - Aug 2006 - Equivalent of request.setAttribute(key, value) in Rails??

Hi All

I come from Java/J2EE background and I was wondering if there was any way of
setting an attribute-value in request.

As far as I understand the equivalent is/are the controller instance
variable that are exposed to the view(templates/layout). But they are not
the same as storing values in request objects in Java servlets. Plus I feel
this can give rise to race condition and data swapping between multiple
requests in production environment. Because from what I have read in
production environment there is only one instance of each controller that
will serve all requests, hence the instance variables will be re-used across
multiple requests. As these instance variables are used to render data in
views is it not possible that a race condition arise where a new requests
changes the same instance variable that they previous request was using to
render the view.

Please help me understand and allay my concerns

thanks
-daya
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