Hi All,
I have a problem with the AJAX requests in rails. Consider a
controller class C with some methods M1, M2, M3. For this controller
class I have a view V.rhtml.
Within V.rhtml I have a periodically_call_remote AJAX request script
to call the method M1 after every 5 seconds say.
However, when I do this , I observe that for every new AJAX request a
new instance of my controller class C gets created with default values
of the instance variables, whereas I need the values of variables from
my current instance of the Class C .
Any clues as to how can I maintain a single class instance for all of
my AJAX requests from a particular client.
TIA
~Shishir
Shishir S. wrote:
However, when I do this , I observe that for every new AJAX request a
new instance of my controller class C gets created with default values
of the instance variables, whereas I need the values of variables from
my current instance of the Class C .
Any clues as to how can I maintain a single class instance for all of
my AJAX requests from a particular client.
TIA
~Shishir
Hiya Shishir,
You need to remember that HTTP is essentially a stateless protocol -
every ajax call you make is similar to just doing a reload in your
webpage.
The same principles will apply to keep your current state i.e. add
get/post parameters to your request, use session or use cookies so that
you can determine the current state in your controller.
Hope that helps.
Luke
Shishir S. wrote:
new instance of my controller class C gets created with default values
of the instance variables, whereas I need the values of variables from
my current instance of the Class C .
Any clues as to how can I maintain a single class instance for all of
my AJAX requests from a particular client.
TIA
~Shishir
Save whatever you need to persist between AJAX calls to the session
object.
–
Michael W.
I am trying to use the session[:object] but the mongrel server throws
some error. 
Can you give some example code as to how to implement the same.
Thanks,
Shishir
On Sep 19, 3:20 pm, Luke P. [email protected]