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...I load, or should I spec the actual query? I know that DB access is sort of frowned upon, but is this a situation where it is more or less acceptable? My spec looks something like this, but just feels funny because I''m essentially rewriting the query. describe User, ''when calling find_by_username'' do before(:each) do User.stub!(:find).and_return(nil) end it ''should convert the username to lowercase'' do uname = ''Joe'' uname.should_receive(:downcase).and_return(''joe'') User.find_by_username(uname) end...

Is there a more elegant way of writing this? def verify_user @user = User.find_by_username params[:username] if @user.nil? message = xml.error do |xm| xm.message "User does not exists: #{params[:username]}" end render :xml => message return false else true end end Thanks, Joel -- http://wag...

...nly certain individuals the ability to manage topics etc. That code is in the moderator_role.rb migration file which looks like this: class AddModeratorRole < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up moderator_role = Role.create(:name => ''Moderator'') admin_user = User.find_by_username(''Admin'') admin_user.roles << moderator_role end def self.down moderator_role = Role.find_by_name(''Moderator'') admin_user = User.find_by_username(''Admin'') admin_user.roles.delete(moderator_role) moderator_role.destr...

I am working on our (newly renamed) authentication feature. The current scenario is: Scenario: Non-administrators should not set administrator ability Given I have no users And I add a user named "admin" as an administrator And I add a user named "myuser" as not an administrator When the user named "myuser" authenticates And the user

...', :controller => ''user'', :action => ''show'' Is there a way to perform a lookup of the username before matching on this route? I am hoping to be able to do something like this (completely made up): :requirements => {:username => {|username| User.find_by_username(username)}} I vaguely remember seeing a post a few months ago related to this but I have had no luck digging it up. Thanks, Tom Davies http://atomgiant.com http://gifthat.com

Dear all, I have a doubt, How to fetch records from tables, which are not having ID field as its primary key. If possible, please tell me to way to extract data from those tables. -- with regds, Nahalingam N. Kanakavel. (http://www.nahalingam.bravehost.com/PlanetN/) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

...steps file When "$person logs in" do |user| post_via_redirect "/users/login", {:authenticator => {:username => user, :password => "washington"}},{:https => ''on''} request.should_not be_ssl request.session[:user_id].should == Person.find_by_username(user).id end working fine with cucumber-0.10.0 and cucumber-rails-0.3.2 but if I upgrade with cucumber-rails-1.2.1 or cucumber-rails-1.3.1 - at this line request.session[:user_id].should == Person.find_by_username(user).id I am getting bellow error. Then amitpandya should be logged in...

i am trying to create a system so that different users have different priviliges on my application. i was going to modify my authorize function so that i could pass the required role to it and have it check the current user for that role. i am using before_filter and would like to have just one function instead of writing one for each role like so: authorize(role) instead of:

I have a controller test here: http://gist.github.com/275616, which works fine when account is an independent model, however I want: an account to be a property of user, ( and created and associated when a user is) when the user goes to /account/edit it should on edit the account of the logged in user - I can make rails do this, but I''m utterly baffled how I should alter this test to

Hello! I have 2 table: users and buddies User: id, name, ... Buddy: id, user_id, user_buddy_id, ... So if you have 2 users 1,jack and 2,fred and fred is a buddy of jack, there is a Buddy object: id=1, user_id=1, user_buddy_id=2 I can declare only one belongs_to in Buddy and one has_many in User. And there is conflict if I had the second one (the first one is discarded) class User has_many

Hi, I am trying paginate (will_paginate) users posts. It is counting and showing the page links correctly, but still showing all the posts on one page. @entries = @user.entries.paginate :per_page => 5, :page => params[:page], :order => ''created_at DESC'' If I change it to @entries = Entry.paginate :per_page => 5 ........ It is fine, but I would like to show only

...o everyone, I am just starting a project for school in RoR and I am a complete n00b ^^ Here''s my problem : I need to get the user''s login stored in the session but for some reason I cannot. Here''s my login method code : def login if request.post? @user = User.find_by_username(params[:login]) if @user and @user.password_is? params[:password] session[:user] = @user.id redirect_to :controller => ''games'' else @auth_error = ''Wrong username or password'' end end end And here''s the code of my GamesCo...

...uire ''util/render_error'' class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base include RenderError end app/controllers/user_controller.rb: class UserController < ApplicationController before_filter :verify_user private def verify_user @user = User.find_by_username params[:username] if @user.nil? render_user_exists params[:username] false else true end end end Thanks, Joel -- http://wagerlabs.com/

...search, and making a fool out of myself; but I found a way to get a user model from the session and have it accessible in every controller and view in 6 lines of code. In the ApplicationController write model :user before_filter :set_user private def set_user @user = session[:user] ||= User.find_by_username(''nobody'') end I have redeemed myself (whoohoo!!)

...rsonaldatas Is a problem with my associations? How to save personaldata with @user.save ? class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :personaldata end class Personaldata < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user end class UserController < ApplicationController def update @user = User.find_by_username(params[:id], :include => [:personaldata]) @user.attributes = params[:personaldata] # <- doesn''t work #@user.personaldata.attributes = params[:personaldata] # <- this way it doesn''to work too if @user.save flash[:notice] = ''Updated'' red...

Hi, In my login_controller I get the usename of the person logging in. @username = @user.name puts " DEBUG: #{@username} just logged in\n" # This works But @username seems empty when accessed from numbers_controller.rb , how to I set it to be accessible global? Or at least move the content of that variable over to another controller. Best regards, Martin

Hello, I''ve created my user model which validates against the database for a proper user/pass combination. I''ve set validation options to ensure that both a user and password are entered. I would like to check via an ajax call whether or not the username is taken. I haven''t been able to find a tutorial covering this topic. Do any of you know of one? Thanks, David

Hi all, I''m trying to get rails up on mssql for a friend, does anyone have experience? We''re working on a Windows XP box with MSSQL 2000 (no service pak), and both rails (1.1) and MSSQL are on the same box. I''m running into a bug (I think) where activerecord is using this syntax: SELECT TOP 1 * FROM users WHERE (users.user = ''jbgnuumnbu'')

...ser model class User < ActiveRecord::Base devise :database_authenticatable, :oauthable def self.find_for_accounts_oauth(access_token, signed_in_resource=nil) data = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(access_token.get(Settings.oauth.site + Settings.oauth.access_token_path)) if user = User.find_by_username(data["username"]) user else # Create an user with a stub password. User.create!(:username => data["username"], :password => Devise.friendly_token) end end end Logs from provider Started POST "/oauth/token" for 127.0.0.1 at 2010-09-1...

...self.pals.find(pal) ? true : false end #validate # errors.add_to_base("No password") if crypted_password.blank? # end # Authenticates a user by their username name and unencrypted password. Returns the user or nil. def self.authenticate(username, crypted_password) login = find_by_username(username) # need to get the salt if login expected_password = encrypted_password(crypted_password, login.salt) if login.crypted_password != expected_password login = nil end end login end def password @password end def password=(pw) @password = pw create_new_salt...