You should just be able to do that by making the controller a subclass of 
ApplicationController


explained here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19147729/access-devise-current-user-variable-in-rails-controller



On Oct 6, 2014, at 9:14 PM, Joseph Wilks <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> So I'm creating a tv trivia game app, and when a user completes their
> quiz, I need to update certain aspects of the user (level/xp, also
> saving some of their answers to the database).
> 
> However, I'm using devise for authentication, and I'm not sure how to
> access and update the current user when I'm in the quiz controller or
> quiz view. I'm assuming I need to add a helper method which gives the
> controller access to the current user, but I'm not sure how to do it
> exactly.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
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