From: Douglas Livingstone <rampant@...>
Date: 2005-09-05T21:37:40+09:00
Subject: Re: params v.s. @params in rails?

2005/9/4, David Heinemeier Hansson <david.heinemeier@gmail.com>:
> > The recommendation for using the params method, instead of accessing
> > the @params instance variable directly, is that it�s more uniform to
> > use the accessor method, since you can also do that from the view.
> 
> Direct access to these instance variables is deprecated. The same goes
> for cookies, session, request, response, and the other accessors. Use
> the accessor instead of going directly, so it's request.get? instead
> of @request.get?.
> 

Is there a one-stop reference to the best practices for this sort of thing?

Douglas