Passing aariable from controller to a different view?

Rails
1

Hi Guys,

I am still very new to this rails stuff so I’m looking for some help. I
have a login controller which authenticates a person and redirects them
to the projects page, here is a snippet of code.

======================================================================
if request.post?
person = Person.authenticate(params[:email_address],
params[:password])
if person
session[“user_id”] = person.id
if person.type == “Customer”
flash[:notice] = “You have successfully logged in”
redirect_to(:controller => “projects”, :action => “index”
)
end
else
redirect_to :action => “login”
flash[:notice] = “Invalid user/password combination”
end
end

I have a projects controller which has a field company_id (as a project
belongs to a company). I also have a people table which holds the
customers (as well as admins based on person.type).

I want to be able to redirect the person to the projects table and have
the projects displayed only for that user.

In the customer model I have specified belongs_to :company.
In the project model I have also specified belongs_to :company.
In the company model I have specified has_many :projects.

Somehow I need to get the person logging in from the login controller
and transfer that to company controller and then pass that to the the
projects controller to use in the project view.

But I have really stuck on how to do this!

Please can someone help!

Regards,

Dave

2

Use restful authentication (or a similar plugin) for tracking that
kind of stuff: http://github.com/technoweenie/restful_authentication

Ryan B.
Freelancer

3

Ryan B. wrote:

Use restful authentication (or a similar plugin) for tracking that
kind of stuff: http://github.com/technoweenie/restful_authentication

Ryan B.
Freelancer
http://frozenplague.net

Couldnt I just do the following… in my projects controller?

before_filter :find_projects

def index

@projects = Project.find(:all)

@project_company = @projects.company_id 

@projects = @results.find(:all)

respond_to do |format|
  format.html # index.html.erb
  format.xml  { render :xml => @projects }
end

end

def find_projects
@user_in = Person.find_by_id(session[“user_id”])
@company = Company.find_by_id(@user_in.company_id)
@results = Company.find(@company.id).projects # Find all projects
that belong to company
end