Rails, Clearance, using User ID after logging in?

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Published on 2010-03-18T14:47:58Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 14:51 UTC
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I'm using clearance (http://wiki.github.com/thoughtbot/clearance) for authentication in my rails app. But I'm trying to figure out how to grab the user's ID in a view after logging in.

Any ideas?

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