newbie question on usersession

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all: prob a stupid question.. new to ruby/rails.

I have a working ruby on rails app on my server. However, i don't provide authentication service. (login etc).. In my workplace, there is a centrally authenticated URL- if ppl go there first, they can get authenticated. i thought i will put my html start page in this centrally authenticated place(with a form and hidden param and redirect to my ruby on rails server).

I however, want to prevent ppl directly using http://myServer/app/main

So, in my main method, i do this def controller_main    @user = @params['user']    if (@user == nil)        redirect_to "http://goway.com" # basically send them to some no accesspl    end end

This looked good.. but the problem is: i have other methods like list def list   # This lists all my data   #here my check for @user always returns nil. Why? end

Only main method gets access to the html hidden param 'user'. i dont know why storing it in @user does not work (i thought its instance variable).

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Thanks for your reply. It still does not work for me. It only works on access to my main page (since the html redirect is passing a hidden param). in the login server, my html page content is like this

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the way i solved is using session[:user] = @params[‘user’]

and in other methods i just use the value of session[:user]