Yes, but suggestions on how would be useful.  :-)

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:35 PM, kevinpfromnm <[email protected]> wrote:

> Really?  All this magic stuff needs to be documented.  Otherwise, no
> one will find out about it unless they source dive or get nuggets like
> this from forums/irc/etc.
>
> On Feb 4, 2:31 pm, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Feb 4, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Zooper wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > I need to track the most recent user login date.  I have been using
> > > the following in the front controller's index action:
> >
> > > User.update(current_user.id, {:updated_at => Time.now})
> >
> > > This, works, but on the rare occations that someone revisits the home
> > > screen during a session, the date gets set again.  It also seems a
> > > little silly to set the update_at field, which gets set correctly
> > > automatically when the user record is updated.  I chose this field,
> > > because there is no danger of changing real user data.
> >
> > > So, I have two questions.
> > > 1. Is there a place to force a user record update right after login so
> > > thst it can only happen once?
> > > 2. Is there a better way to force an update to the user record to set
> > > the update_at field?
> >
> > Try adding a :datetime field to your user model named last_login_at -
> > I'll think you'll be shocked what happens.... :)
> >
> > --Matt Jones
>
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