RE: [Rails-devel] Saving and logging.

[Brett L. <wak...@ea...>]

>> I've been thinking about the game-save and game requirements, 
>> and it seems
>> to me
>> that these are best served by a single solution: All the 
>> user's funtional
>> input,
>> e.g. "Fred buys a B&O share", "PRR lays a #9 on H14/ew" 
>> should be saved in a
>> replayable log. This log could be held in memory 
>
>Why not written to a file immediately?
>Granted that Windows does not crash that often these days,
>but why take the risk?

My preference is to have these written to a temp file when we transition=
 from stock round to operating round and from operating round to stock=
 round.

Then, when the user wants to save the game, we just move the temp file to=
 the user-specified location.

I don't think we need to be constantly writing out to the disk, but we also=
 don't want to wait _too_ long before saving the game.


---Brett.