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Caching with Instance Variables

#1 Caching with Instance Variables

Mar 04, 2007 | 2 minutes | Performance, Caching
Learn a quick way to improve performance. Just store the end result of an expensive command in an instance variable!
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application.rb 
def current_user
  @current_user ||= User.find(session[:user_id])
end