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2006 Apr 08
3
[Tip] Application Wide Context Howto
...nguish from one another. But since you can
store any object in a ruby hash you can store anything you want in
this $application_wide_hash. Just make a unique key and store it in
the users session. Maybe something like this:
key = "#{current_user.id}-#{Time.now}-#{rand}
session[:app_server_key] = key
$application_wide_hash[key] =
SomeObjectOrValueYouWantToStoreInApplicationWideStorage
Then on the next request you can get that object back with this:
$application_wide_hash[session[:app_server_key]]
This approach allows for a very flexible application wide context.
It...
2006 Apr 11
4
Managing "application scope" data - best practices
All,
I have some data that I need to be able to see across the application.
For J2EE people out there, I need something that I want to have
available in the "application scope" of my app.
What is the best way to handle this?
I''m trying to access a class variable that I created in my controller
from my view (to no avail).
Create a class variable in my helper class and use