Rails - Jul 2006 - loginGenerator - getting logged in username

i am working on a site taht uses loginGenerator..

it''s a great little package, but i am running into one little problem..

i would like to have something that says:

"logged in as <username>" in the site, but i am not quite
getting it..

what i am using is:

<p>You are logged in as: <%= @session[:user] %>

but i have tried:

<p>You are logged in as: <%= session[:user] %>

anyone have any ideas?

also..

is there a way to get a list of all the current session variables?

in php, it would be something like:

print_r($_SESSION);

but i dunno how to do it in rails.

thanks!


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On 7/5/06, sergio ruiz <sergio@village-buzz.com>
wrote:
>
> <p>You are logged in as: <%= session[:user] %>
try session[:user].login, or whatever your username column is called.
session[:user] contains the user object.
> is there a way to get a list of all the current session variables?
>
> in php, it would be something like:
>
> print_r($_SESSION);
>
> but i dunno how to do it in rails.
p session or puts session.inspect if you want it dumped to the
console, <%= session.inspect %> if you want it in a webpage.

martin

> p session or puts session.inspect if you want it dumped to the
> console, <%= session.inspect %> if you want it in a webpage.
> 
perfect!

thanks, martin..

for some reason, i still can''t access login..

i will keep at it..

thanks again..

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On 7/5/06, sergio ruiz <sergio@village-buzz.com>
wrote:
>
> > p session or puts session.inspect if you want it dumped to the
> > console, <%= session.inspect %> if you want it in a webpage.
> >
>
> perfect!
>
> thanks, martin..
>
> for some reason, i still can''t access login..
>
> i will keep at it..
>
> thanks again..
Can you post the schema of your user table?

martin

> 
> Can you post the schema of your user table?
> 
> martin
yes:

CREATE TABLE `users` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `login` varchar(80) default NULL,
  `password` varchar(40) default NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8

i might also note that i tried:

<p>You are logged in as: <%= @session[:login] %>

too..

thanks!

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On 7/5/06, sergio ruiz <sergio@village-buzz.com>
wrote:
>
> >
> > Can you post the schema of your user table?
> >
> > martin
>
> yes:
>
> CREATE TABLE `users` (
>   `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
>   `login` varchar(80) default NULL,
>   `password` varchar(40) default NULL,
>   PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
> ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8
<%= @session[:user].login %> should work fine, then, assuming that
session[:user] itself is getting set correctly.

martin

> <%= @session[:user].login %> should work fine
i don''t know why, but i also installed the LoginGenerator (and the ACL 
system) and for some unexplanitory reason, @session[''user'']
(as apposed
to @session[:user]) worked for me.
don''t know why, but i hope it helps.
either way, the best way at it seems to do @session.inspect and see what 
name the username/login variable is listed under.

good luck,

harp

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@session[''user''] is not the same as @session[:user] - it just
happens
that for many (but NOT all) of the Hash-like objects that Rails
creates, they have been tweaked to not care if you''ve given a symbol
or a string as the key (HashWithIndifferentAccess is the class of
these critters).

Try this to prove it to yourself:

  h = {} # new Hash
  h[''a''] = ''hello''
  h[:a] = ''asta la vista, baby''
  puts h.inspect

For whatever reason, session is a regular Hash and not at
HashWithIndifferentAccess, so you need to know the exact keys
(including whether or not it was a String - ''user'' - or a
Symbol -
:user). This might help in your views:

  <%= debug session %>

James

On 7/5/06, harper <harper@chalice.ci> wrote:
>
> > <%= @session[:user].login %> should work fine
>
> i don''t know why, but i also installed the LoginGenerator (and the
ACL
> system) and for some unexplanitory reason,
@session[''user''] (as apposed
> to @session[:user]) worked for me.
> don''t know why, but i hope it helps.
> either way, the best way at it seems to do @session.inspect and see what
> name the username/login variable is listed under.
>
> good luck,
>
> harp
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> 
>   <%= debug session %>
> 

there is still something stumping me here..

i tried this, and got the stuff at the bottom of this post.. which looks 
ok..

@session.inspect gives me the second set of output (on bottom of 
post)...

but @session[:login] still gives me nothing..

thanks for the help so far.


--- !ruby/object:CGI::Session
data: &id001
  user: !ruby/object:User
    attributes:
      id: "6"
      password: **passwordhere**
      login: sergio_101
  return-to:
  flash: !map:ActionController::Flash::FlashHash {}

dbman: &id002 !ruby/object:CGI::Session::PStore
  hash: *id001
  p: !ruby/object:PStore
    abort: false
    filename: 
/Users/sergioruiz/Sites/podCaster/public/../config/../tmp/sessions//ruby_sess.6f80be42c9003bb7
    rdonly: false
    table:
    transaction: false
dbprot:
- *id002
new_session: false
session_id: 6c0a0bdeb66e7d6cf545e9649aaf0137



##"6", "password"=>"**passwordhere**",
"login"=>"sergio_101"}>,
"return-to"=>nil, "flash"=>{}},
@dbman=##"6",
"password"=>"**passwordhere**",
"login"=>"sergio_101"}>,
"return-to"=>nil, "flash"=>{}}, @p=#>,
@new_session=false,
@session_id="6c0a0bdeb66e7d6cf545e9649aaf0137",
@dbprot=[##"6",
"password"=>"**passwordhere**",
"login"=>"sergio_101"}>,
"return-to"=>nil, "flash"=>{}}, @p=#>]>

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