Rails - Jan 2006 - Flashing Login Notice To Non Authenticated Users

Greetings,

I''m working with the salted hash login generator.  Is there a way to 
post a flash message if the user isnt authenticated for a section of my 
site and has to login?  If so, where should I implement it?

To understand what I am talking about, try and visit a Basecamp page 
without being authenticated.  It posts a notice flash telling you to 
login.  If you just directly visit the login page, however, there is no 
flash.

Thanks for the help.

- justin

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I don''t know how this logingenerator works, but:

there should be a before_filter somewhere, this executes a method before 
each request. It could be in app/controllers/application_controller.rb. 
In this before_filter there should be something like:

def authenticate
  if {valid_login}
    true
  else
    redirect_to :controller => ''login''
    false
  end
end

You can insert the flash here:

def authenticate
  if {valid_login}
    true
  else
    flash[:notice] = ''Not logged in''
    redirect_to :controller => ''login''
    false
  end
end

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