Am I crazy?

rubyonrails-talk
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I would expect the def case to work so long as it is not in the private part of application_controller.rb. I would expect @img_types = ... to also work. I would not expect just img_types = ... to work as that is a local variable in the application_controller.rb object and would quickly go out of scope when the class definition closes.

Michael

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Hi --

I would expect the def case to work so long as it is not in the private part of application_controller.rb. I would expect @img_types = ... to also work. I would not expect just img_types = ... to work as that is a local variable in the application_controller.rb object and would quickly go out of scope when the class definition closes.

The first two cases actually work the other way around :slight_smile: A private instance method of ApplicationController will be callable by the subclasses (the other controllers). If you define an instance variable out in the open:

  class AC < AC::Base      @img_types = [a,b,c]   end

that won't be visible to the other classes (since they're different objects and instance variables are per-object).

David