Rails - Jun 2006 - Redirect if session is nil

How exactly do i redirect a user if they''re not logged in?

I have a cookie being written to the @session variable on login and I 
can pull info from it. For instance
"@session[''user''].login" pulls their
username just fine. But if they type in the url of the "welcome" page 
without logging in I get "You have a nil object when you didn''t
expect
it!" which I would expect.

Instead of this nasty error message, how would I redirect them to the 
login page?

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Probably something like

if session[''user''].nil?
	redirect_to whatever
end

You would probably want to make this into a filter, too

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Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:04 PM
To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
Subject: [Rails] Redirect if session is nil

How exactly do i redirect a user if they''re not logged in?

I have a cookie being written to the @session variable on login and I 
can pull info from it. For instance
"@session[''user''].login" pulls their
username just fine. But if they type in the url of the "welcome" page 
without logging in I get "You have a nil object when you didn''t
expect
it!" which I would expect.

Instead of this nasty error message, how would I redirect them to the 
login page?

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It worked! It''s too simple I think that''s the problem.
It''s amazing what
5 hours of coding will do to the hum brain. Thanks.


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