Question

I am a ruby newbie.

I want to define a parm user something like:

@user.mail = "[e-mail]"
@user.login = "test"

Then display the value in template

<%= @user.name %>

How to assign the value of mail and login to user?

Or what is the format, content of

@user = User.find(params[:id])

Answer 1

why dont you use a hash ??

 @user = {}
 @user["mail"] = "[e-mail]"
 @user["login"] = "name"

you can then access these in view using

 <%= @user["mail"] %>   

add this to your file if you want to use User as object(everthing is object in ruby,userdefined object is a better word)

class User
   attr_accessor :mail
end

and then you can use

@user = User.new
@user.mail = "test@mail" 

u can then use this in your view

<%= @user.mail %>