Howto set a global parameter

Rails
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Hi,

In my login_controller I get the usename of the person logging in.
@username = @user.name
puts " DEBUG: #{@username} just logged in\n" # This works

But @username seems empty when accessed from numbers_controller.rb ,
how to I set it to be accessible global?
Or at least move the content of that variable over to another
controller.

Best regards,
Martin S.

2

Le Vendredi 7 Avril 2006 14:18, Martin S. a écrit :

Hi,

Hi

In my login_controller I get the usename of the person logging in.
@username = @user.name
puts " DEBUG: #{@username} just logged in\n" # This works

But @username seems empty when accessed from numbers_controller.rb ,
how to I set it to be accessible global?
Or at least move the content of that variable over to another
controller.
This is perfectly normal, as @username is an instance variable of your
login
controller and so does not belong to any other controller.

But what you need is a session, I think :
session[:username] = @user.name

And you’ll be able to access it from any controller.

Cheers,

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I’m assuming by global that you want a variable to exist in all
controllers and views. While using sessions to accomplish this works,
one ends up having duplicate code to access these sessions, resulting
in a coupled unmanageable controller/view set. I found that the best
solution for “globals” is to define the applicationController’s
initialize method and create the “global” data as an instance
variable. For example, to share a user model across all views and
controllers code the following:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
model :user
model :permission

def initialize
@user = session[:user] ||= User.find_by_username(‘nobody’, :include
=> ‘permissions’)
end

end

where session[:user] exists or the default ‘nobody’ user is created
and assigned to both @user and session[:user].

so far I have found nothing wrong with defining the initializer.

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4

plus, there is also a good post called “Sessions or Lookups” back in
the middle of march. Furthermore, I just tried the code I wrote ><
apparently sessions are not loaded at the time the
ApplicationController is initialized.