Greetings, I have a question regarding using sessions with REST. I''m wondering if passing form data between controllers using sessions is not recommended for Rails / REST? I need to prepopulate a form, based on information from another form (which doesn''t have a model behind it). You could think of this as a multi-step form where the first step determines the inputs displayed in the second step. Javascript-tabs are not really good here unless I use AJAX to populate the second step of the form...Even then a ''tab'' interface is not desired (the user should have no way of switching back and forth, or any idea that it''s a multi-step form from the interface side, the user should just fill one form, which leads to a second, created based on data from the first. My plan was to use a separate controller for the first step which would pass parameters to the main controller to render the second step in its new method, through via the rails session variable. The first controller would render the first step via its ''new'' action. Upon posting, it would take the :params posted into the ''create'' action and use it to place variables into the Rails session variable. Then the same ''create'' action would redirect the browser to the second controller''s ''new'' action which would then pickup the variables needed to construct the second, main, part of the form from the Rails session variable. Unfortunately it makes the ''new'' method of the main controller unfunctional without the Rails session being initialized by the first controller''s ''create'' action (as it needs those extra parameters in order to layout the second, main part of the form) Is this a un-RESTful way to do things (passing extra data around via sessions)? Should I instead pass a querystring to the ''new'' method of the main controller? Should I lump everything into the main controller some how? Your thoughts? --Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---