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Asked: May 18, 20262026-05-18T12:07:48+00:00 2026-05-18T12:07:48+00:00

I am looking at this ruby code and they make reference to: @current_user and

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I am looking at this ruby code and they make reference to:

@current_user

and

self.current_user

what is the difference?

http://code.google.com/p/openplaques/source/browse/trunk/www/lib/authenticated_system.rb

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    2026-05-18T12:07:49+00:00Added an answer on May 18, 2026 at 12:07 pm

    @current_user is an instance variable. self.current_user calls the method on line 10 that returns that instance variable, first populating it if it is currently nil.

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