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Slowly figuring out how to get my SaltedHashLoginGenerator stuff working. The wiki page says to put "before_filter :login_required" in the user (my "user" is "member") controller or in ApplicationController. However, wherever I put it I get NoMethodError. The rest of the SHLG stuff seems to be working... or at least I could get to the signup page, register, and

Folks, My understanding of how filters work is that I should return true if everything is ok and false if not. How does the filter below work then (from the Rails Recipies book)? It would return nil if there''s a user in the session. Does nil count as true? before_filter :check_authentication def check_authentication unless session[:user] session[:intended_action] =

Hi, The user/login management system in Chapter 31: Authenticating Your Users and Chapter 32: Authorizing Users with Roles of Chad Fowler''s Rails Recipes looks reasonable and adequate. However, when I ran the Chapter 31 code, I get the following error: Username or password invalid And I am not even given the chance to sign in; that is, the signin form does not appear at all. Has

Hi there, I''m having a bit of an issue with my before_filter. I know that the filters put in the application.rb controller are global for all the controllers. In my application filter I''d like to allow access to the RSS feed method in a ''member'' controller and skip the login checks that the before_filters are currently performing. In my application my filters

Code sample: class SomeController < ApplicationController before_filter do |c| add_crumb "Blah", "/blah" #breadcrumbs plugin redirect_to :controller => "foo", :action => "bar" unless c.send (:has_package?) end # Rest of the controller... private def has_package? # A bunch of logic work to check to make sure # somebody''s session contains

Can you set a global before_filter action in application.rb? So, for example, you could control authentication for all of the controllers in an app.? Obviously, you would need a way to reference actions by controller within this "global before-filter". Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all I want to outsource an extension for ApplicationController, that I had in application.rb so far, into a plugin. I have created this plugin, and in init.rb I load require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/lib/application_controller'' In lib/application_controller.rb I have the following code: class ApplicationController before_filter :prepare_user ... end This worked

Hi--I''m trying to implement a 2-level authentication system, where I have one before_filter which does general user authentication, and another which does further authorization for a specific controller. I have it set up as follows: before_filter :authorize_level_2 prepend_before_filter :authorize_level_1 which causes authorize_level_1() to run, and then authorize_level_2().

I have a method that checks for a given role. I want to write something in my controllers like before_filter :check_roles(''admin'') Which will ensure the current user has the admin role. Is it possible to pass parameters in this way? Ian

Hi there I am wondering if we can use before_filter in the form of :action OR :action what i want to do is to implement one of the actions, if the first failed, then go to the second when i use before_filter :action1 before_filter :action2 each method will run them, my case is that i want to check if one of them is true and not both any idea?

Hello, I''m setting up an authentication module that will be called from application.rb. I want to save a rrequest.request_uri into a session to be used as a place holder that will take users back to the page they were on before they logged in. I''m trying to call the store_location method for all methods EXCEPT login by putting login in an except before filter. For some

I have a simple login scheme in application.rb. Something like :requires_login is called in any controller as a before_filter. All is good, except I''m having trouble figuring out how to make the public login actions skip this before filter. Here''s what I have: application.rb skip_before_filter :requires_login, :only => [:login, :logout, :confirm_valid_login]

Hi all I have the following class: class MemberController < ApplicationController before_filter :authorize, :except => :index def index ... end Now I want to give the before_filter more than one :except argument. I tried :except => {:index, :login}, but this didn''t work. How can i accomplish this? Thanks a lot and have a nice day, Josh -- Posted via

I leave a notice in the flash and do a redirect from a before_filter. Can someone confirm that the first request after this, i.e. the page I redirect to, doesn''t/isn''t supposed to clear the flash? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/flash%2C-before_filter-and-redirect_to-t1367103.html#a3665933 Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at Nabble.com.

Can you restric before_filter to specific actions? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, how can I get the current URL withing a controller? There seems to be no appropriate method in ActionController::Base. I''m creating a site, which requires a login for some pages. I''m using before_filter for authentication. My idea was to store the currect URL in a session before redirecting to the login page and then redirect to this URL after successful authenfication.

Hello, I added the "before_filter" to my controllers to require a login of the user. Here''s an example of my Unit Controller with the added before_filter: IN THE ATTACHED FILE When executing the tests with rake test, I get different error messages. To show you my errors, I only executed the unit controller test with the following line: ruby -Itest

Hi! I am writing an acts_as_ plugin and i need to access session data from it. But i cant find any information if this is possible? And if it is, how. Cheers! Mathias

Hi all, I''ve got a Rails app with a ApplicationController that looks like this: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base before_filter :authorize, :except => :login def authorize unless session[:user] flash[:notice] = "Please log in" session[:jumpto] = request.parameters redirect_to :controller =>

Hi, I''m new to Ruby/RoR so please bare with me! I''m trying to adapt a ruby setup where someone logs in to a bonjour service via a web browser. I have the login screen which asks for host and password. There is only one user per host and i can log in fine. It''s suppose to redirect me to /list in my browser but doesn''t. Once i''ve entered the correct