sorry, that reply should have said " I really _do_ think that
serializing the message in the cookie is the path of "least surprise"
developers expect."
seriously, putting the message in the URL is goofy.
On Oct 30, 12:18 am, Jon Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ok thanks...but that kind of sucks. If I wanted goofy URLs I'd use
> seaside ;).
> I really do not think that serializing the message in the cookie is
> the path of "least surprise" developers expect.
> I do not know why merb would add this new "message" thing without
> ensuring the message lasted through a redirect; its pretty useless
> without that behavior.
>
> Jon
>
> On Oct 29, 8:51 pm, "Daniel N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Jon Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I have just started using the newer controller "message" hash. I had
> > > previously rolled my own flash behavior which worked well. Now, I'm
> > > trying to drop my old stuff along with an auth rewrite and getting
> > > some trouble.
>
> > > In older merbs, I used to have controller code like:
> > > ...
> > > flash[:notice] = "success!!"
> > > return redirect(url(:home))
> > > ...
>
> > > My old flash mechanism put this messages in the session cookie and it
> > > was there when the redirect got handled.
>
> > > The latest merb with merb-auth being used, I'm doing:
> > > ...
> > > message[:notice] = "success!!"
> > > return redirect(url(:home))
> > > ...
>
> > > and the message gets lost.
>
> > > I do see there is a new way to pass the message with the redirect, but
> > > this ends up putting the message in the URL, not what I want:
> > > return redirect(url(:home), :message => { :notice =>
> > > "success!!" })
>
> > > What are others using for this behavior??
>
> > > thanks, Jon
> > >http://shellshadow.com
>
> > Hi Jon,
>
> > This is how the helper works. It encodes it into the url on redirect.
> > You'd use it like this
>
> > redirect url(:some_url), :message => {:notice => "My Message"}
> > OR
> > message[:notice] = "My Message"
> > redirect url(:some_url), :message => message
>
> > If you don't want it in the url then you'll prolly want to go to something
> > like merb_has_flash
>
> > Cherrs
> > Daniel
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