# Newbie w. quick question on accessors in ActionController

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-w-quick-question-on-accessors-in-actioncontroller/190023>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 11, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-w-quick-question-on-accessors-in-actioncontroller/190023 "2010-06-11T16:44:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lille](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lille](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Lille)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-w-quick-question-on-accessors-in-actioncontroller/190023/1 "2010-06-11T16:44:49Z")

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Hi,

Can someone please confirm that accessors cannot be used in  
ActionController to ‘persist’ values between requests, at least, not  
without persisting to the database?

I’m trying to minimize AJAX calls by storing information from certain  
of my calls for use by others later, but my attempts fail. My takeaway  
is that instance variables, as set by an accessor, are not stored  
between requests.

Thanks for any comment,

Lille

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**Author:** ![Lille](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lille](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Lille)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-w-quick-question-on-accessors-in-actioncontroller/190023/2 "2010-06-11T16:50:41Z")

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On Jun 11, 3:43 pm, Lille [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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correct - fresh requests get a new instance of the controller class.  
In production the next request could very easily go to a different  
rails instance or even a different physical server if your app is  
running on several servers.

Fred

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**Author:** ![Lille](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lille](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Lille)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-w-quick-question-on-accessors-in-actioncontroller/190023/3 "2010-06-11T17:07:39Z")

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Thanks!

On Jun 11, 10:49 am, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)