On Dec 21, 7:16 pm, John Merlino <[email protected]> wrote:
> One thing I forgot to mention is we assign the local variable u to the > session :user: > > if session[:user] = User.authenticate(params[:user][:login], > params[:user][:password]) > > Hence, the session has this user stored. > > THis is a little unclear to me though: > session[:user] > > We are storing a symbol called :user in sesion associative array. So > :user is initiaized with vaue of u (whcih is dataset we returned). > What's the purpose of using symbol here? Why can't we use something else > like a variable? Why would you want to? If you're going to store something in the session you might as well use a constant as the key. You don't have to, but you'd just be making life more complicated Fred > > THanks for response. > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
