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Ruby on Rails/ActionController/Cookies
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Cookies
Of course you can work with cookies inside your Rails application. This is, again very similar to working with parameters or sessions. Consider the following example:
def index
#here we want to store the user name, if the user checked the "Remember me" checkbox with HTML attribute name="remember_me"
#we have already looked up the user and stored its object inside the object-variable "@user"
if params[:remember_me]
cookies[:commenter_name] = @user.name
else # Delete cookie for the commenter's name cookie, if any
cookies.delete(:commenter_name)
end
end