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. > > -- > 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/409dc897c54b41e8c9f8e0f4610f909d%40ruby-forum.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > ---- Jason Fleetwood-Boldt t...@datatravels.com http://www.jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/writing All material © Jason Fleetwood-Boldt 2014. Public conversations may be turned into blog posts (original poster information will be made anonymous). Email ja...@datatravels.com with questions/concerns about this. -- 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/28ECAD36-311A-4512-9B62-BCE0A14DF099%40datatravels.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.