[Rails-devel] autosave files

[Jim B. <ji...@ko...>]

Stefan wrote:  
> I added a simple autosave and game recovery mechanism. ...  
> The current defaults activate autosave and 
> stores a 18xx_autosave.rails file in the current working directory.

Auto-saving files to the current-working directory is problematic for pbem games, where players inevitably open the pbem game from a shared dropbox folder.

When autosave files appear by magic, it reveals all temporary/session-level analysis to other players, in real time (by constantly saving temp-files in the dropbox).  

For this reason, I think it's a pretty undesirable feature (unless Rails can become more clever about distinguishing shared/game folders, from personal/config folders, which it doesn't do well imho) .... 

regards,
 - jim