Beginner Questions Need Help

Rails
1

Hello everyone,

I was trying to create a website with many users and each user is
entitled to view their account. How should I start? Cookies? Or
unique sessions? Any leads or tips on making a professional site would
be nice. Any roadblocks to consider? Thanks for your help.

2

typically once you are happy that the user is who they claim to be,
you do something like session[:user_id] = @user.id
Then on subsequent approaches you can do User.find(session[:user_id])
to get the logged in user. Often one uses a before_filter to restrict
access to the appropriate pages. There is a plugin
(acts_as_authenticated) that does most of this for you.

Fred