# Authlogic::How to access current user from within a cache sweeper?

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**Created:** [August 4, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authlogic-how-to-access-current-user-from-within-a-cache-sweeper/173152 "2009-08-04T05:07:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authlogic-how-to-access-current-user-from-within-a-cache-sweeper/173152/1 "2009-08-04T05:07:41Z")

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So I’m trying to follow along in Chad F.'s Rails Recipes (recipe  
#59, Keeping track of who did what) and I simply want to access the  
current user from within my cache sweeper. Normally you just  
reference @current\_user but that doesn’t seem to be the case here.

In Chad’s example, he calls controller.session[:user]. What’s the  
Authlogic equivalent? Thanks for any help.

Here is Chad’s full example:

class AuditSweeper \< ActionController::Caching::Sweeper  
observe Person

def after\_destroy(record)  
log(record, “DESTROY” )  
end

def log(record, event, user = controller.session[:user])  
AuditTrail.create(:record\_id =\> record.id, :record\_type =\>  
record.type.name, :event =\> event, :user\_id =\> user)  
end

end