Is the user logged in? (restful-authentication)

Question

I have used restful-authentication and I have "public" layout and a completely different "members" layout. When someone visits my root (defaults to public) how can I check if they are logged in and redirect them to the member's section?

Answer 1

You could define a method like this in application_controller.rb:

private
def require_user
  # logic to check if session exists and redirect if not
end

Then add the following in your pages that require that the user be logged in:

before_filter :require_user

I'm not familiar with restful-auth so I don't know the exact check that would be required.

Good luck.

Answer 2

RestfulAuthentication provides some conditional methods/helpers including one called logged_in?. It returns true if the user is logged in. Check out the authenticated_system.rb file for the list of all available methods.