Ruby on Rails Sunday, July 31, 2011

Frederick Cheung wrote in post #1014004:
> On Jul 31, 5:12pm, 7stud -- <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> > the @current_user variable instead of calling the current_user= setter
>> > function.
>>
>
> Memoization is an extremely common practice. I find the existence of
> current_user= a little odd.
>

Why's that? In the SessionsController there is a method that is defined
like this:

def signin(user)
cookies.permanent.signed[:remember_token] = [user.id, user.salt]
self.current_user = user
end

By the way, the book we are discussing is online and we are discussing
section 9.3:

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/sign-in-sign-out#sec:signin_success

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