# Redirect if session is nil **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 8, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect-if-session-is-nil/62774 "2006-06-08T00:04:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jasbur](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@jasbur](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasbur)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect-if-session-is-nil/62774/1 "2006-06-08T00:04:19Z")
How exactly do i redirect a user if they’re not logged in? I have a cookie being written to the @session variable on login and I can pull info from it. For instance “@session[‘user’].login” pulls their username just fine. But if they type in the url of the “welcome” page without logging in I get “You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!” which I would expect. Instead of this nasty error message, how would I redirect them to the login page? ---
**Author:** ![jasbur](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@jasbur](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasbur)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect-if-session-is-nil/62774/2 "2006-06-08T00:10:56Z")
Probably something like if session[‘user’].nil? redirect\_to whatever end You would probably want to make this into a filter, too ---
**Author:** ![jasbur](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@jasbur](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasbur)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect-if-session-is-nil/62774/3 "2006-06-08T00:19:21Z")
It worked! It’s too simple I think that’s the problem. It’s amazing what 5 hours of coding will do to the hum brain. Thanks.