Curious how params, flash etc work in rails?

Rails
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I am curious how stuff like params and flash work in the controller ?
Typically an instance variable is something like
@params, or maybe self.params. How does rails make params appear as if
it’s an instance variable ?

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I am curious how stuff like params and flash work in the controller ?
Typically an instance variable is something like
@params, or maybe self.params. How does rails make params appear as if
it’s an instance variable ?

I believe at one point params was an instance variable. And there was
a method “params” that passed through to that instance. I also
remember that this was changed awhile back and you should never ever
use @params again. That it is no longer a simple instance variable.

As for how they work specifically, dig through the source :slight_smile:

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:57 PM, [email protected]
[email protected] wrote:

I am curious how stuff like params and flash work in the controller ?
Typically an instance variable is something like
@params, or maybe self.params. How does rails make params appear as if
it’s an instance variable ?

irb

o = Object.new
=> #Object:0xb7a3e000
o.instance_variable_set( :@foo, ‘bar’ )
=> “bar”
o.inspect
=> “#<Object:0xb7a3e000 @foo=“bar”>”

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Object.html#M000381

–
Greg D.
http://destiney.com/

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ok,

offhand I’m not sure how to create a method foo that is used like an
array so I can say foo[:id], but I’ll have to think about that or look
through my books …

On Mar 25, 5:46 pm, Frederick C. [email protected]

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On Mar 25, 8:57 pm, “[email protected]” [email protected] wrote:

I am curious how stuff like params and flash work in the controller ?
Typically an instance variable is something like
@params, or maybe self.params

@params is an instance variable, but self.params is a method called
params

How does rails make params appear as if
it’s an instance variable ?

it doesn’t. It just defines a method called params (and one called
flash etc…) on controllers. There use to be instance variables
called @params, @flash that you could use interchangeably but use of
those was deprecated and removed a while back.

Fred

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On Mar 25, 10:07 pm, Larz [email protected] wrote:

ok,

offhand I’m not sure how to create a method foo that is used like an
array so I can say foo[:id], but I’ll have to think about that or look
through my books …

There’s not much to it:

class Foo
def initialize
@hash = {}
end

def
@hash[key]
end

def []=(key,value)
@hash[key]=value
end
end

That’s not what’s happening with params though. That’s just a method
that returns a hash.

Fred