ApplicationController

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Andreas Schneider wrote:

Hi all,

perhaps I am on the wrong path - because I come from the ASP world :slight_smile:

I want that my app checks on every page if my user is logged in or not. I have 2 cookies set in my signin process - which works great. now I want to set a global var if a user is logged in or not I do that in the application controller

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

    $login_user_id = cookies[:user_id]     $login_user_sid = cookies[:user_sid]     if $login_user_id != ""       $login_ok = true     else       $login_ok = false     end

end

but this will not work - he cant access the cookies

error >> undefined local variable or method `cookies' for ApplicationController:Class

what I am doing wrong?

thanks for any help in my path to escape the MS ASP world :wink: andreas

Hey

You could write an action that just checks those cookies...

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

  def login_ok?     !cookies[:user_id].blank?   end

end

Then in some other action in say, your store_controller? use

def show_store   if login_ok?     render :layout => 'store'   else     flash[:warning] = 'not allowed there!'     redirect_to :action => 'not_allowed'   end end

Or something similar, I'm not very big on cookies, but this seems like it should work :]

Cheery-o Gustav Paul gustav@rails.co.za