Basically, I have a store controller and an account controller (using acts_as_authenticated). In the store controller, I have a before_filter which populates some instance variables with information about the cart to be used in most of the store views. So, imagine that a "guest" user is shopping and adding things to the cart. One of the side boxes displays the cart content as well as some other information about his cart using the information populated by the before_filter. When he wants to check out, he has to log in/create an account. As soon as the site goes to the account controller to log him in, he loses the information that was being generated by the before_filter in the store controller (of course) and the view fails. So, my question is, what is the best way to design this? Make the information available to all controllers? (if so, how?) The account controller''s information is available to all controllers. Is this because it is a plug-in or the way it is designed? Maybe I don''t totally grock the controller thing because the impatient part of me is about ready to throw everything in one controller just so it''s available everywhere. LOL Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Shagy -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
If the cart is stored in the session, it should persist from being a guest to when they''re logged in. Maybe it''s your plug-in that''s clearing your session out. I''ve always found it easier to write my own code than use a plugin, precisely for reasons like this. If you wrote the code, you''re sure to know what it''s doing and how to change it. If someone else wrote it, you''re going to have to spend time learning how they wrote it and you might as well have written your own code by the time it''s said and done. (IMO) Jason Shagymoe wrote:> Basically, I have a store controller and an account controller (using > acts_as_authenticated). In the store controller, I have a before_filter > which populates some instance variables with information about the cart > to be used in most of the store views. So, imagine that a "guest" user > is shopping and adding things to the cart. One of the side boxes > displays the cart content as well as some other information about his > cart using the information populated by the before_filter. When he > wants to check out, he has to log in/create an account. As soon as the > site goes to the account controller to log him in, he loses the > information that was being generated by the before_filter in the store > controller (of course) and the view fails. > > So, my question is, what is the best way to design this? Make the > information available to all controllers? (if so, how?) The account > controller''s information is available to all controllers. Is this > because it is a plug-in or the way it is designed? Maybe I don''t > totally grock the controller thing because the impatient part of me is > about ready to throw everything in one controller just so it''s available > everywhere. LOL > > Any advice is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Shagy > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
I would say save the cart object in the session and you can get the information back in every controller you are using. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Just to extend a bit on what mayoz said... Any data that you want to save from one request to the next you MUST put in either the database or the session. You MUST NEVER try to save data in the controller or any other in-process location. Remember that when you deploy your application you will almost certainly have multiple instances of your application running, each with its own independent state, and there is no way to guarantee that a particular user will be connected to the same instance on each request. To save data in the session, in your controller just do: session[:some_identifier] = some_data Then to get it back during the next request, some_data = session[:some_identifier] Each user has his or her own private session that nobody else can see, so you don''t need to explicitly link the data to a particular user. In your case, you probably just want to do: session[:cart] = object_containing_cart_information -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
mayoz wrote:> I would say save the cart object in the session and you can get the > information back in every controller you are using.Do this, and add a before_filter to application.rb. Any instance varibales you set via before filter in application.rb will be available in all controller actions, for all controllers. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---