On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, katthi wrote: > I have to develop a framework in such way that it has to support work > flows and persistance storage in ruby on rails .for example if we take > office automation system ,if the user interacts with the system,if > that event results in workflow, the workflow system has to kick in > and if user wants to store the data ,the persistance thing will come > to picture .generally the object we want to circulate between > workflows is a spread sheet > can anyone supply pointers for this how to approach in order to fit your style i'll also try to write the answer without bothering much about correct punktuation gramar and ortografi and write it all more or less in one paragraf which doesnt make it much easier to read but it illustrates an important point namely how to cleverly ask questions on mailing lists so to come to the point what you could actually do is to store your spread sheet somewhere on a persystent storage (say /home/mysuperrubyapp/myspreadsheet999222333.xlr and then to pass on only the reference such as the filename to it in the session and thus every step in the whole work flow can then access that file and update it greetings *t -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek http://sourcepole.com - Linux & Open Source Solutions -----------------------------------------------------------