Can you share the content of session_help.rb? In your Users table, do you set a flag to indicate whether or not the user is admin? The Controller informs and interacts with your Model. When the user logs in, you have a controller method that manages login. You try to find the user by username, password, email or some combination...
def login On Monday, July 6, 2015 at 9:18:43 AM UTC-4, Padmahas Bn wrote: > > Based on railstutorials.org, I've written my method to check whether it > is admin or not inside sessions_helper.rb. Now in model I've to insert data > to temporary table lets assume "*user_temp_table*", if it is normal user > that has logged in. Later those entries will be approved by admin. If it is > admin himself logged in I want to insert data to permanent table lets > assume "*admin_table".* > > Now where is the best place to call admin checking method which I have > written inside sessions_helper.rb. > I have two possibilities. > > 1. Set a flag to 1 or 0 inside controller and access that flag variable > from model if it is admin or user respectively. > Problem: But I found some blogs and stackoverflow posts stating that > controller is just a bridge between view and model. And variables inside > controller should not be accessed from model. Addition to that I don't know > how to access controller variable from model. If this is the method please > tell me how? > > 2. include SessionHelper inside model and call the method. > > But posts I found related to both of these solutions are very old. So in > rails 4 which is the valid and good way to carry out this task? Or is there > is any other new way? > > Thank you. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/d06cf12f-02f7-4288-84c2-e2da88cf0012%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
