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Can I set an application wide instance variable that is available for all actions...and their views? eg. class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base @current_user = User.find(session[:user_id]) end and everywhere I can call @current_user.id and I can get that object? Even down in the views? I could not get this to work... Thanks in advance, Jeff -------------- next part

I have multiple roles in my application. Now I want to block a method for all users except the administrator and a manager. When I do this: before_filter (:check_administrator_role), :only => [:administration] before_filter (:check_taskmanager_role), :only => [:administration] The user must have both roles. How can I change that to an "OR" combination? -- Posted via

I''m trying to jump on the TDD/BDD bandwagon, but am having trouble understanding how i should mock my user. The user has a habtm relationship to a roles model (acl_system2 plugin), but I''m not sure how to tell rspec about a model. My code: describe UsersController do integrate_views before(:each) do @user = mock_model(User)

I know its probably doesnt sound right, but I am trying to call a before_filter method that will check whats the user role and then based on that return a string / hash / array to the before_filter something like this: class MonqiClassesController < ResourceController::Base before_filter :check_user_access_level , grant_access def check_user_access_level if

What do I need to do to be able to use an acts_as_authenticated current_user in a model? Is there some sort of include or require I can do some where that would allow this? ********************************************************** Here is what I am trying to do: ********************************************************** class Setting < ActiveRecord::Base before_create :created_by_user #

i found Ezra''s acl_system plugin yesterday and i am trying to figure it out. based on the simple instructions on the site, it does exactly what i need but i''m getting some errors when i try to use it: NoMethodError in UsersController#index You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occured while evaluating nil.roles i am pretty new to rails and

I''m setting up authentication with Authlogic and I get this error. I''ve done some searching but with no success. I tried setting the current_user method in Application_controller to protected and not private, on the recommendation in Stack Overflow. Error in browser----------------- NoMethodError in User sessionsController#new undefined method `require_no_user'' for

I''m already successfully testing before_filters in application_controller courtesy of this blog post: http://www.movesonrails.com/articles/2008/01/23/spec-ing-your-application-controller However, i can;''t work out how to test the sort of method that is added to application_controller so that all controllers can use it. It must be something simple that i''m doing

Hi, I''m trying create a user system for a future project but I have a problem when I want give to my users the "Welcome". This is my code: #application_controller class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base protect_from_forgery helper_method :current_user private def current_user_session return @current_user_session if defined?(@current_user_session)

I am trying to create a null object in my application. I would like to assigned a null user object for anonymous/ mot-logged-in user, i.e. if session variable has nil data. In my User model, I have created a subclass like this: class UnassignedUser < User def save false end def update false end def username "Unassigned" end def county_id

I have a User model, a Post model, and an Interest model: User has_many posts through interests User has_many interests, dependent destroy Post has_many users through interests has_many interests, dependent destroy Post has_many interests Interest belongs to Post Interest belongs to User Application_Controller is as follows: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base before_filter

Hey, I''m designing an app which displays the events near a user in RoR. I''m using the beat forum to facilitate user management/sessions/etc. I''ve edited the sessions table in the Beast database to contain a "session_location" value and what I''d like to do is to set this to the users location when they log in. This would allow them to change their

Hi, I just installed Rails 2.0.2 [root@mymachine easyx]# ruby --version ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux] [root@mymachine easyrx]# gem install rails --include-dependencies Need to update 16 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org ................ complete Successfully installed rails-2.0.2 [root@remandev easyrx]# But I''m getting this error in my restful_authentication

Trying to add authlogic in a simple project but get the error; Showing app/views/layouts/application.html.erb where line #33 raised: undefined method `underscore'' for nil:NilClass Extracted source (around line #33): 30: <div id="mainleft"> 31: <ul class="menu"> 32: <li><%= nav_link "Home", "site", "index"

The Rails ApplicationController (app/controllers/application.rb) serves as an abstract superclass for all other controllers in a Rails application and is a good place to put methods and filters which you want all of your controllers to use. In my case I''m using it to provide methods such as "current_user" and "logged_in?" etc. By default, RSpec

Good morning rspec people! Still rspec nuby: I must do something wrong obviously. How can I spec about redirect_to at ApplicationController describe ApplicationController do it "method login_required should redirect to home path without login" do pending "I tried to use controller.login_required.should be_redirected and got NoMethodError with nil object

I had an error that I couldn''t figure out, then when writing up a question for the forum I figured it out. The thing is I don''t understand why the change that was made works and why what existed before didn''t. Here is the initial post when I had the error: ---------------------------------- In the controllers/application.rb file I have a method that finds the account

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

Studying the RoR 3 Tutorial book by Michael Hartl and on page 345 there''s the code inside the SessionsHelper: _________________________________________________________ module SessionsHelper def sign_in(user) cookies.permanent.signed[:remember_token] = [user.id, user.sault] self.current_user = user end end __________________________________________________________ What is the purpose

I''m pleased to announce a new plugin for Rails: Userstamp. You can read my blog post at http://www.delynnberry.com/articles/2006/01/20/userstamp-plugin and/or read all about it at the perminant page http://www.delynnberry.com/pages/userstamp. Any comments or suggestions for improvement are much appreciated. -- DeLynn Berry delynn@gmail.com http://www.delynnberry.com A dump of the Readme