All, I ran into a situation where I was receiving "marshal data too short" errors on my Apache/FCGI combination (yes, I know about Mongrel, etc.) when I was displaying errors using the standard scaffolding error scheme. I solved this problem but wanted some advice/feedback on my solution. Here is the original code from my controller that I was using to handle the errors: begin @current_job.set_list_relationships(params[:current_job][:target_list_ids]) @current_job.update_attributes!(params[:current_job]) rescue flash[:current_job] = @current_job return redirect_to( :action => ''job_params'' ) end The problem with this was that @current_job is a huge object with a big object graph and this was blowing up my session (since flash is a session object) when I would do the redirect back to ''job_params''. My solution is below. I created a clone of the @current_job object and then populated that new object''s errors array (since AR::Base.clone does only a shallow copy). Then, of course, my view executes error_messages_for() on what''s in flash[:job]. I have a couple of questions: 1) Is the loop on errors.each_full the best way to handle getting the errors onto the new object? I couldn''t see a way to just copy the errors from @current_job to flash[:job] wholesale. 2) Is there a better way to handle this? I don''t think so given that the errors array has to be handled somehow. 3) Does it make sense, in general, to "render" your errors but redirect on success? In this particular case, I really do have to redirect even on the errors because the destination page is performing an AJAX call triggered by an "onload" event. But oftentimes, I could see one just rendering in the error case since the instance variables are already available for the destination view. begin @current_job.set_list_relationships(params[:current_job][:target_list_ids]) @current_job.update_attributes!(params[:current_job]) rescue flash[:job] = @current_job.clone @current_job.errors.each_full do |err| flash[:job].errors.add_to_base(err) end return redirect_to( :action => ''job_params'' ) end Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---