How to access global variable in a view in Ruby on Rails?
- by ben
I have a User model.
I have a Session controller, in which I have a global user variable that is assigned as follows:
$user = User.authenticate(params[:session][:email], params[:session][:password])
(I've made user global just to try to solve this problem, so if there's a better way please let me know!)
I need to use the email of the logged in user as a parameter to send to Flex part of my website. At the moment I'm creating the link as follows:
<%= link_to "secondpage", secondpage_path(:email => @session.$user.email)
But I'm getting the following error:
compile error
/Users/benhartney/rails_projects/talk/app/views/layouts/_header.html.erb:12:
syntax error, unexpected tGVAR
..._path(:email =
@session.$user.email) ).to_s);
@output_buffe...
There's also a little arrow pointing at $user
If I remove the $ from $user, I get this error:
undefined method `user' for
nil:NilClass
If I remove the
(:email => @session.user.email)
part, everything works fine, so I think all of the code except for this is ok.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for reading!
