On Monday, March 19, 2012 6:30:35 PM UTC+2, Colin Law wrote: > > On 19 March 2012 15:38, Agis A. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys. > > > > I have an app where visitors can see offers in their cities. So a visitor > > must select his city first in order to access the app (much like Groupon, > > using just a cookie though). > > > > How should I approach this? I mean,right now what I'm doing is I have the > > action for the homepage (which lists all offers) and a before_filter > applied > > to it, which redirects the user if no cookie is found. Is this the right > way > > though? > > I would do it using the session rather than a cookie (though the same > thing underneath of course, but more railsey). > > Colin > I'm using the cookie rather than session since a user that will set his city for the first time, is unlikely to "change a city". So I suppose that the visitor will always be interested in his City's offers (well at least until the cookie expires), that's why I wanted to persist this information. That way, since I don't have any authentication system, the site always remembers the device's location so the user doesn't have to choose the city everytime he closes the browser.
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