you probably shouldn''t be using cookie/session data directly in the
view, that should be the controllers responsibility.
simply put this in your controller code:
@username = cookies[:username]
if you want several fields from the cookies, you could do:
@formdata = Hash.new
[ :username, :somefield, :anotherfield ].each do |cookieentry|
@formdata[cookieentry] = cookies[cookieentry]
end
now, @formdata would be accessible in the view, you could do: <%=
@formdata[:username] %>
also, cookies[:username] (without the @) in the view wouldn''t work,
it''s
not a local variable or method on the view object. rails makes session,
cookie and flash data available to the view by putting them in variables
named @session, @cookies and @flash.
nat wrote:> ...i don''t know what to do! obviously, this is probably more
simple than
> what i''m going through now(at least i can say i dear hope so) but
i''m
> having a terrible time trying to use cookies[:something]...
> explination:
>
> i have already implement a nice working cute forum, and i was hoping to
> put the client/forum-user''s username and email into the
corresponding
> <input type="text" .. value="<%=
@cookies["username"]%>" /> fields.
> my controller is defined to set the cookie:
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> def ...
> message = Message.find(params[:id])
> cookies["username"] = message.username.to_s
> ..end
>
> and after a while (after changing a cookies[:username] to
> cookies["username"] and @cookies[:username] and the likes, seems
like a
> random choice of symbol/paranthesies) i actually got it rendered into my
> view, but the problem now, is that when it is rendered, it is viewed
> like :
>
> ;=username=THE CORRECT USERNAME and the email is rendered kinda weird
> also with the ''@'' turned into %40 and a =path leading
it...
>
> is this supposed to be happening?? why isn''t it displayed without
the
> "=username=" and =path and ''%40'' and all of
that; what is h a p e n i n
> g ? ? ?)
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