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acts_as_continuable

by Matt Freels

Continuations in your ActionController actions.

Requirements

Since it uses Continuations and callcc, it will only run on MRI. Sorry, no JRuby or IronRuby. Additionally, you need to set the session store to use memory. Add this line to environment.rb

config.action_controller.session_store = :memory_store

Description

This plugin for Rails allows you to declare actions in your controllers that look like this:

def_continued :my_method
  render :partial => 'form_part_1'
  continue

  render :partial => 'form_part_2'
  continue

  render :partial => 'form_part_3'
end

To use it, include ActsAsContinuable in your controller class

When you call continue, your action execution is paused and stored in the session to return to later. This allows you to handle multiple request/response cycles within a single action. The back button works as well as long as action execution hasn’t actually completed. The action will rewind execution to the appropriate point.

within your view, an instance variable @context_id is available. In order to call back into the action, pass @context_id back as the GET or POST parameter :context_id within your view: e.g.:

<%= link_to :action => ‘my_method’, :context_id => @context_id %>

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Questions, comments, and patches? Contact me at first name@*last name*.name

License

acts_as_continuable is Copyright © 2008 Matt Freels and is released under the following license:

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