Walter Davis wrote in post #1148806: > I would definitely not mix the login logic with the "show the home page" > logic as you seem to have done here
I fully agree that from a programmer's viewpoint it would make the problem much cleaner to solve. However, when developing software, I try to see the user's perspective, and I'm reluctant to change the user interface just because it makes my task as a programmer easier. After all, we are writing programs *for* the user, not for ourselves. I think most users would accept the approach you are suggesting (where in my case, BTW, no operation will be permitted unless being logged in), since they are kind of used to it, but this doesn't mean that we shouldn't make him the life easier. In my application, the user will *always* provide an username, and *always* provide a dictionary name, before s/he can start any sensible work, so it certainly makes sense to request both in one go, when the session is being established established. But at least I learned from the answers, that no really clean solution seems to exist for *this* kind of user interface :-( -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/b764d08a5092a9d2d9b34d16973ef9e6%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
