How do I check if things are working?

[Instrumentry]

I have this in my controller create action:

@thing.save!
@thing.stash(session)

What does this actually do? What is "session"? Does it create a cookie?

Sorry I'm a beginner and there is an awful lack of guides to do lazy registration. Your gem seems to be my only hope.

[whilefalse]

Hi,

No problem. The 'session' in your code example is a rails helper method - it returns the current session object. There's a nice little guide here - http://rails.nuvvo.com/lesson/6372-action-controller-session

There are number of different ways to store the session, and rails provides a single interface to these. The default will store the session in a cookie, others will use a database or memcached etc.

In your code example, the id of @thing is stored in the curent session, under a key known to the plugin. The idea is then that people can anonymously create things, which are stashed in the session. When the user finally signs up, you can call:

Thing.reparent_all(session, :user_id, just_created_user_id)

Which will associate all the things created anonymously by this one person to their new user account.

Hope that helps.