Session based Routing

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Hi,

I'm developing a site with a Login on the frontpage, so when you logged in you will see another "thing" than if you are not logged in. For Example you will see some explanations about the site if you are a visitor, but if you are logged in you will some things specific for you and i want to show that on the frontpage e.g. example.com. How can I handle that? I'm using Authlogic für Session handling and Login. My Idea is a session based Routing, but I don't know how that can be done?

greetings

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As far as I know, that's not possible. One option would be for the controller receiving that action to render entirely different templates based on whether the user is logged in:

class HomeController   def show     if current_user       render :action => 'show_logged_in'     else       render :action => 'show'     end   end end

Note that the 'show_logged_in' action doesn't actually need to exist; the name of the option is a bit misleading here. Note also that the "else" statement isn't necessary; I just included it here for clarity.

Mat

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Something like:

<%= render partial => session[:user_id] ? 'logged_in' : 'something_else' %>

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The normal way to do this is to handle it at the controller level in a before filter set in the ApplicationController, used to check that the user is logged in, via the session, and/or a token, and or via basic http authentication depending on the requirements of the application, and redirects to the login url if not.

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And how does twitter is doing that? There is no Redirect to something, when i visit the Root URL As a visitor and with à Session the Main Page is my tweetlist.

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Same action, different views.