Ruby on Rails

On 6 July 2015 at 14:18, Padmahas Bn <padmahas@gmail.com> 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?

Not sure what your helper method is doing, but I think I would have a
method in the user model so you can just say
if current_user.admin?
or something similar.

Colin

>
> Thank you.
>
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