I don't quite understand the following method (taken from RESTful
authentication) and can't google the problem since the Goog won't accept
the search term in question ("||=").

The method:

def current_user
    @current_user ||= (login_from_session || login_from_basic_auth ||
login_from_cookie || :false)
end

My question:

I know "||" means a boolean "or", but what does "||=" mean?
Can you translate the above method into a sentence?

Thank you very much for your help!
Tom
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.. Helps to keep it DRY

On Apr 14, 2:44 pm, Tom Ha <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote:

@current_user ||= some_expression means use @current_user if it's non-nil or
true; otherwise, assign some_expression to @current_user and then use
@current_user.

Btw, I like your nickname, seems like you're Mr DRY in person... :-)
Tom

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   @current_user || @current_user = x

(See ruby-talk for recent discussions of why this is, also:
http://dablog.rubypal.com/2008/3/25/a-short-circuit-edge-case)

David

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