NAME

rails_current


DESCRIPTION

track 'current_user' et all in a tidy, global, and thread-safe fashion.


SYNOPSIS

most rails apps scatter a bunch of @current_foobar vars everywhere. don't do that. it's fugly. instead, do this.

declare the current_XXX variables you'll want tracked. you can pass a block for lazy computation

class ApplicationController

  Current(:user){ User.find session[:current_user }
  Current(:account)

end

you can now access the current state two ways

1) globally from anywhere in your code base

if Current.user

  ...

end

Current.user = User.find(id)

2) or using the current_ methods that are added by including the Current module into any class (ActionController::Base and ActionView::Base automatically include it)

if current_user

  ...

end

self.current_user = User.find(id)

the Current module is cleared out before every request and is thread safe.


INSTALL

gem install rails-current

gem 'rails-current', :require => 'current' bundle install