How to Pass a Large Array from one Action to Another

Rails
1

Good morning everybody, how are you?

Okay, this should be easy. I am generating a large array in one action,
and I want to pass this array to another action when the user pushes a
button.

@problems is a large array (about 2,000 items) that I need to pass to
the action “buy_cards”. What is the best way to do this? I’m pretty
sure it’s too big for a session, and I don’t want to store it in DB,
since I just need it temporarily:

<%= button_to “Buy Cars”, :action => :buy_cars, :car_id => @file_id,
:problems => @problems %>

Anyone know a good way to pass a large array from one action to another?

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How about putting a serialized version of it as an attachment using a
multipart-form? As long as you’re using a POST in your form action there
shouldn’t be any set limit on the size of data that you’re posting.

@problems.to_yaml (or @problems.to_json) should give you a textual
format. Then in the receiving action de-serialize the yaml (or json).

Joe P. wrote:

Good morning everybody, how are you?

Okay, this should be easy. I am generating a large array in one action,
and I want to pass this array to another action when the user pushes a
button.

@problems is a large array (about 2,000 items) that I need to pass to
the action “buy_cards”. What is the best way to do this? I’m pretty
sure it’s too big for a session, and I don’t want to store it in DB,
since I just need it temporarily:

<%= button_to “Buy Cars”, :action => :buy_cars, :car_id => @file_id,
:problems => @problems %>

Anyone know a good way to pass a large array from one action to another?

3

Joe P. wrote:

Good morning everybody, how are you?

Okay, this should be easy. I am generating a large array in one action,
and I want to pass this array to another action when the user pushes a
button.

Anyone know a good way to pass a large array from one action to another?

I would recommend serializing it into a temp file on the server and
reading it back out in the other action. You should be able to serialize
it with “to_json”, and just write it to a file. Then read it back into
an array in the other action. Name the temp file relative to the user
so you don’t have to worry about a name collision, and then pass the
path to the temp file in the session.

HTH,
jp