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    <p>I have a Rails app (using Authlogic for authentication) with a simple jquery animation that I only want to run once upon first page load. I know that the key is to check cookies or something to see if the user has visited the page before. Please forgive my n00bness, I know little to nothing about HTTP cookies or sessions.</p> <p>So, what's the best way to see if a visiting user (even if they haven't logged in) is viewing a page for the first time? </p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Ok, so I realize I wasn't being entirely clear.</p> <p>I've spent hours looking at similar questions and reading the Rails API Docs for cookies and sessions and I still can't visualize how to implement a <strong>visited?</strong> function for each page in my site that will only be set to "true" after the user has visited the page the first time. I looked at the supposed "duplicate" question <strong><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4988300/rails-detect-if-users-very-first-visit">Rails Detect If User's Very First Visit</a></strong> and the respective answers and still can't figure it out. </p> <p>Here's my "Pages" controller:</p> <pre><code>def home @title = "Home" end def contact @title = "Contact Us" end </code></pre> <p>dd</p> <p>And my jquery javascript that does a simple animation:</p> <pre><code>$(document).ready(function() { if (!$.cookie('visited')) { $('.title .flying-text').css({opacity:0}); $('.title .active-text').animate({ opacity:1, marginTop: "-150px", }, 5000); } }); </code></pre> <p>I only want it to show if the user HAS NOT visited the page before. I have no idea how to properly set a cookie in Rails, nor where to put it, nor how to make sure that the animation script can access that exact same cookie value. Can someone give me a hand?</p> <p>~Dan</p>
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    1. COLooks like a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4988300/rails-detect-if-users-very-first-visit
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    2. COEdited to make my question clearer. I looked at the other question and still cannot figure it out.
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