Module: CookiesManager::ControllerAdditions

Defined in:
lib/cookies_manager/controller_additions.rb

Overview

This module provides a CookiesManager facility for your controllers. It is automatically extended by all controllers.

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#load_cookies_manager ⇒ Object

Sets up a before filter that creates a new CookiesManager into an instance variable,

which is made available to all views through the cookies_manager helper method.

You can call this method on your controller class as follows:

class YourController < ApplicationController
  load_cookies_manager



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# File 'lib/cookies_manager/controller_additions.rb', line 15

def load_cookies_manager
  self.before_filter do |controller|
    # defines a CookiesManager instance variable, based on the cookies hash
    controller.instance_variable_set(:@_cookies_manager, CookiesManager::Base.new(controller.instance_eval { cookies } ))
    # wraps the instance variable in a the +cookies_manager+ method
    define_method :cookies_manager, proc { controller.instance_variable_get(:@_cookies_manager) }
    # makes the +cookies_manager+ method available to all views as a helper method
    helper_method :cookies_manager
  end
end