I am building an E-commerce website on ruby on rails from scratch.
My product belongs to a subcategory which in-turn belongs to a category. My filters partial include multiple check-boxes for category,subcategory,additional_category(Like hand made clothes,factory built etc.),lifestyle(relaxed,corporate etc) and cloth_material_type(this has around 30 options) I am sending an array for each of these 5 cases to the backend to search through the associations. *Now when a non logged in user reloads the page the filters set by user resets to default.* To avoid this I have four options in mind. *Option 1*. Store the filter values set by the user in the *cookies* which is fast.But it might slow down the user's browser. *Option2* . Store the values in a session using *ActiveRecord::SessionStore* gem which will increase the size of session for me to 65K but would slow down the application. *Option 3* .Using jquery modify/create *document.url* options so that every filter option gets appended to the document.url and on reload I get the parameters set by the user for filtering.But this looks very cumbersome to implement. *Option 4.* Use gems like Rails Temporary data to store the values Can someone guide me which would the best way to store temporarily these details for a non logged in user. *Edit:*I have opted for storing the values in a session using *ActiveRecord::SessionStore* gem but still m worried that it will become cumbersome to maintain after some time. Please suggest as to what Rails based ecommerce applications usually do to save this kind of temporary data -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/056063f2-2ff0-4bb2-8155-4b1976c4acd2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
