Rails - Jun 2005 - undefined local variable

I''m working through Dave Hunts new book.  Trying to emplement the login
example.
 I set the following.

create table users (
id int not null auto_increment,
name varchar(100) not null,
hashed_password char(40) null,
primary key (id)
);

model/user.rb
...
attr_accessor :password
...
end

controller/application.rb
...
  model :user
...
end

controller/login
...
  def add_user
    @page_title = "Add a User"
    if request.get?
      @user = User.new
    else
      @user = User.new(params[:user])
      if @user.save
        redirect_to_index( "User #{@user.name} created")
      end
    end
  end
...
end

when I attempt to run this Rails gives me the following error:

undefined local variable or method `password'' for User::User:Class

/app/models/user.rb:8
/home/prs6241/app/controllers/login_controller.rb:13:in `add_user''



This error occured while loading the following files:
   user.rb

What have I done wrong?
Thanks,
-Larry

Did you get a solution to this? On first glance, it may be because you 
don''t have a password field in your database table - it''s
called
"hashed_password". Change "attr_accessor :password" to
"attr_accessor
:hashed_password", or run this against the database:

alter table users change hashed_password password char(40);

Just an idea.

Larry wrote:
> I''m working through Dave Hunts new book.  Trying to emplement the
login example.
>  I set the following.
> 
> create table users (
> id int not null auto_increment,
> name varchar(100) not null,
> hashed_password char(40) null,
> primary key (id)
> );
> 
> model/user.rb
> ...
> attr_accessor :password
> ...
> end
> 
> controller/application.rb
> ...
>   model :user
> ...
> end
> 
> controller/login
> ...
>   def add_user
>     @page_title = "Add a User"
>     if request.get?
>       @user = User.new
>     else
>       @user = User.new(params[:user])
>       if @user.save
>         redirect_to_index( "User #{@user.name} created")
>       end
>     end
>   end
> ...
> end
> 
> when I attempt to run this Rails gives me the following error:
> 
> undefined local variable or method `password'' for User::User:Class
> 
> /app/models/user.rb:8
> /home/prs6241/app/controllers/login_controller.rb:13:in `add_user''
> 
> 
> 
> This error occured while loading the following files:
>    user.rb
> 
> What have I done wrong?
> Thanks,
> -Larry
> 
> 
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