Re: instance variable voodoo

2009-03-11 Thread Edward Heil
On Mar 12, 2009, at 12:06 AM, _why wrote: Sure you could use a class var. Those are guaranteed to persist throughout the life of the app. Or a constant. Also, Shoes comes with SQLite3, data can be passed there. Thank you!

Re: instance variable voodoo

2009-03-11 Thread _why
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:52:21PM -0400, Edward Heil wrote: > OK, so fooling around further it looks like all instance variables get > wiped at the beginning of every method within a Shoes subclass. > That's OK I guess. So what's the preferred way to have some data > that's shared from one

Re: instance variable voodoo

2009-03-11 Thread Edward Heil
OK, so fooling around further it looks like all instance variables get wiped at the beginning of every method within a Shoes subclass. That's OK I guess. So what's the preferred way to have some data that's shared from one Shoes URL to another? Passing it from one page to the next in the

instance variable voodoo

2009-03-11 Thread Edward Heil
this seems weird to me. Am I wrong to be able to expect to use a method inside a shoes-derived class to assign a value to an instance variable? Check this out: == class BugTest < Shoes url '/', :main def assign_variable info "assigning variable." @foo = "bar" info "se