http://forums.pragprog.com/forums/59/topics/367 en-us 60 <p>Nope, there&#8217;s nothing that would keep this from working. I don&#8217;t normally include the concept of a current user in my models because my domain model rarely involves a current user, that is more likely to be an artifact of the interface.</p> <p>In this book, I decided to model the pattern of the restful_authentication plugin. Restful_authentication is probably the most popular Rails authentication plugin, so I figured it would be a well known interface to use.</p> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:04:27 -0000 forums.pragprog.com:59:367:2589 Mike Mangino http://forums.pragprog.com/forums/59/topics/367 <p>Great book, but I had a question about the current_user stuff in Chapter 4.</p> <p>My first thought is that the current user should be accessed via User.current instead of current_user in the application controller. Is there something about how Facebooker works that this refactoring will not help us?</p> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:32:20 -0000 forums.pragprog.com:59:367:2588 Justin Ng http://forums.pragprog.com/forums/59/topics/367