skipping on to 15.11 in which we play with session crap

cookbook/015/hodgepodge/app/controllers/index_controller.rb

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+class IndexController < ApplicationController
+  def index
+    session[:first_time] ||= Time.now
+  end
+
+end

cookbook/015/hodgepodge/app/helpers/index_helper.rb

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+module IndexHelper
+end

cookbook/015/hodgepodge/app/views/index/index.html.erb

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+<p>You first visited this site on <%= session[:first_time] %>.</p>
+<p>That was <%= time_ago_in_words session[:first_time] %> ago.</p>