I recently refactored another developer’s code to clean up some massive amounts of database pings to retrieve the current user object. The main problem was in the use of the logged_in_user or current_user idiom in Rails. Several places give good examples but leave out the details that were bugging my project.
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It’s been a great couple of weeks to be out and about aspen-peeping (what am I doing sitting here?). Had some good bike rides and fishing amongst the fall colors. Seems to be a bit more orange and red amongst the golden aspens this year. Here’s a couple pix. A few more in my plog.
The default generated error.gsp view in Grails displays the stacktrace for any exceptions that occur. That’s nice for debugging in a development environment but it is a security issue for production as it is information leakage. We can easily turn this off when not in development, and do something useful like redirect to the application homepage.
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