Ajax callback w/o model update?

Is there a way to keep a controller instance variable across a
link_to_remote call?

In essence, I want the call to re-render a partial within my page with
different display parameters, but without doing another DB call. Is
there a simple way to do this?

Are the variables short enough that you can serialize them and stuff
them
inside parameters in the URL? It’s ugly but functional, and requires no
back-end help. (Or turn it into a POST for longer strings.)

  • James

James M. wrote:

Are the variables short enough that you can serialize them and stuff them
inside parameters in the URL? It’s ugly but functional, and requires no
back-end help. (Or turn it into a POST for longer strings.)

Nope. I’m talking a fairly hefty Foo.find(:all, :include => […])…

So there’s good reason not to want to re-execute the query just so I can
redisplay with different parameters.

Mick S. wrote:

Is there a problem with storing the results of the query in a session
variable?

Not really, although I’d prefer if it didn’t persist to the database or
filesystem. I’m also concerned about making sure that it gets cleared
as soon as I leave the page…

Thinking it through a bit further, it seems that there are really only
two solutions:

  1. Store in the session, in which case, I want to get it cleared as soon
    as I leave the page.
  • Is there a callback or such that handles this?
  1. Create a data structure in JS and do the redisplay entirely on the
    client side.
  • Has anyone experience with this? Possible with RJS?

Thanks for any help.

Is there a problem with storing the results of the query in a session
variable?