[Ruby] Preserving State

[Michael Judge]

Hey Neil,

You can use custom routes to pass temporary variables around without  
it being ugly.

   /bankruptcies
   /bankruptcies/date/october/2006/
   /bankruptcies/status/pending/

To keep the URL clean, larger strings like a search for a name or  
something could go in a session or hidden variable.  The pagination  
thing I'd keep in routes though.  I think it looks nice.

   /dmv/results/
   /dmv/results/page/5

Also, using Flash as temporary storage is a bad idea.  It's intended  
to be a convenient way to pass messages to a view, not a convenient  
way to store data for just a few requests.

 From one of my controllers:

   if @interview
     flash[:notice] = "We're returning you to where you left off."
     redirect_to :action => 'interview'
   end

- Mike

On Dec 5, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Neil Moomey wrote:

> Yes, I meant 24 tables, one db.
>
> I'm reading up on sessions as well as flash.  Would flash be  
> appropriate?  I
> like the fact that it's temporary and I can use flash.keep on every  
> page
> until I'm done using it.  I would prefer not to use url silliness if
> possible.  My boss complained about the ugly urls we are currenly  
> using.
>
> Neil
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