Added ActionController#cookies[] as a reader for @cookies that'll return the...

Added ActionController#cookies[] as a reader for @cookies that'll return the value of the cookie instead of the cookie object itself. NOTE: If you were using the old accessor, this could potentially break your code -- if you expect a full cookie object!

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@18 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

actionpack/CHANGELOG

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+* Added ActionController#cookies[] as a reader for @cookies that'll return the value of the cookie instead of the cookie object itself.
+  NOTE: If you were using the old accessor, this could potentially break your code -- if you expect a full cookie object!
+
 * Added the opportunity to defined method_missing on a controller which will handle all requests for actions not otherwise defined #223 [timb]
 
 * Fixed AbstractRequest#remote_ip for users going through proxies - Patch #228 [Eric Hodel]

actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb

@@ -235,10 +235,6 @@ class Base
     # directive. Values should always be specified as strings.
     attr_accessor :headers
     
-    # Holds a hash of cookie names and values. Accessed like <tt>@cookies["user_name"]</tt> to get the value of the user_name cookie.
-    # This hash is read-only. You set new cookies using the cookie method.
-    attr_accessor :cookies
-    
     # Holds the hash of variables that are passed on to the template class to be made available to the view. This hash
     # is generated by taking a snapshot of all the instance variables in the current scope just before a template is rendered.
     attr_accessor :assigns
@@ -559,6 +555,11 @@ def cookie(*options) #:doc:
         @response.headers["cookie"] << CGI::Cookie.new(*options)
       end
 
+      # Returns the value of the cookie by +name+ -- or nil if no such cookie exist. You set new cookies using the cookie method.
+      def cookies[](name)
+        @cookies[name].value if @cookies[name]
+      end
+
       # Resets the session by clearsing out all the objects stored within and initializing a new session object.
       def reset_session #:doc:
         @request.reset_session