From: Paul Smith <paul@...>
Date: 2009-09-22T21:39:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing an instance variable in another method

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Subashini Kumar
<subashinikumar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to Rails.I tried developing a basic quiz application.Please
> help me out in my doubt.Thanks in advance
>
> <% CODE %>
>
> class QuizController < ApplicationController
>
>  def index
> # i have retrieved the first five questions from the database for
> displaying the #question to user
>    @quiz=Quiz.find(:all,:limit=>5)
>
>  end
>
>  def report
>
>  end
>
> # this method checks the answer and gives score
>  def checkanswer
> # here i want to access the @quiz object which is a set of questions i
> have #retreived from the database.Hot to access it?

Just use @quiz.  That's the point of instance variables.  However, you
have to make sure that checkanswer is being called at some point after
index has been called, and I'm no Rails aficionado.

>  end
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