Rails - Nov 2008 - Questions about changes to Restful Authentication.

I have a couple of projects with Restful Authentication

The first snippet is from the Git repo today and is supposed to be the
newer code.

    # Store the given user id in the session.
    def current_user=(new_user)
      session[:user_id] = new_user ? new_user.id : nil
      @current_user = new_user || false
    end


  # Store the given user id in the session.
  def current_user=(new_user)
    session[:user_id] = (new_user.nil? || new_user.is_a?(Symbol)) ?
nil : new_user.id
    @current_user = new_user || :false
  end

Why did "@current_user = new_user || :false" become false? and how
did :false work at all.
Why did we stop caring that new_user is a Symbol? and how could that
happen anyway.

Both are somewhat hypothetical questions, but I am curious.

Thanks in advance.
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To answer this you would need to look at the other code surrounding 
current_user, but a more direct answer is that using the symbol :false 
would not represent a boolean false.

You would need to dig deeper into the code to figure out why they did 
not want an actual boolean false. My guess is that it was a hack that 
they have since been able to implement in a cleaner way allowing them to 
use an actual boolean false value.

In any case it''s an internal implementation so either way should not 
affect your public use of their API (assuming you''re not hacking around
their API).

Ruby Freak wrote:
> I have a couple of projects with Restful Authentication
>   # Store the given user id in the session.
>   def current_user=(new_user)
>     session[:user_id] = (new_user.nil? || new_user.is_a?(Symbol)) ?
> nil : new_user.id
>     @current_user = new_user || :false
>   end
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