From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-04-30T10:57:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Class Level Variables

On 4/29/07, Cory Wilkerson <coryw@americanmonkey.com> wrote:
> Cory wrote:
> > Alright, I'm missing some core ruby concept here that I just can't
> > figure out; any assistance would be excellent and welcome:
> >
> > Long story short, I'm attempting to modify class level variables @@foo,
> > @@bar from an action in a ruby controller (an instance of a given
> > controller).
> >
> > It seems that the class level variables set just fine...however, the
> > next time the action is invoked, they're nil again.
> >
> > Code here: http://rafb.net/p/U3Q9VC20.html
>
> It just struck me - it likely is a rails issue, I'm running in
> development mode and methinks it's likely reloading the class every
> single time.
>
> And - sorry if I seemed snippy, been fighting this for a while.

As far as I know, it's a rails issue period.  Unless you're storing
something in the database(either via sessions or models), you don't
have state preservation.  I don't know enough about Rails to give you
the information you need about that, others on this list do.

However, the best place to ask this is certainly the Rails list.