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Lessons:- Current User

  Current User

Having discussed how to store the user’s remember token in a cookie for later use, we now need to learn how to retrieve the user on subsequent page views. Let’s look again at the sign_in function to see where we are:

 

 

Our focus now is the second line:

self . current user = user

 

  The purpose of this line is to create current_user, accessible in both controllers and views, which will allow constructions such as

<%=  current user.name  %>

 

and

redirect  to  current  user  

 

The use of self is necessary in this context for the same essential reason noted in the discussion leading up to Listing 8.18: without self, Ruby would simply create a local variable called current_user.

                To start writing the code for current_user, note that the line  

self . current  user  =  user

 

is an assignment, which we must define. Ruby has a special syntax for defining such an assignment function, shown in Listing 8.20.  

 

 

This might look confusing—most languages don’t let you use the equals sign in a method definition—but it simply defines a method current_user= expressly designed to handle assignment to current_user. In other words, the code

self .current user = ...

 

is automatically converted to

current user= ( ... )  

 

thereby invoking the current_user= method. Its one argument is the right-hand side of the assignment, in this case the user to be signed in. The one-line method body just sets an instance variable @current_user, effectively storing the user for later use.  

 
 
 
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Neha  Jaggi

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Location :-Dehradun,Dehradun,UTTARAKHAND,India
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Experienced Software Developer with a demonstrated history of working in the Information Technology and services industry. Skilled in Web Technologies (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, php, Laravel and AJAX). 


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