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I''m doing RSpec controller testing with CanCan authorization, and I''m seeing something I''ve never seen in RSpec before: the same test run twice fails on the second one. I am NOT doing before(:all) or other things that should cause state to persist between tests: Here''s the relevant code: context "POST create" do context "with user logged

Being a rails newbie, I started to design our first rails-based webapp. This app should not only be used via browsers, but we also want to provide a (RESTful) api. I love the ''convention over configuration'' paradigm, but am totally clueless on what to do when it comes to user authentication. Is there a THE rails-way of doing this? I found many excellent gems and plugins, such as

I am working with the authlogic gem and trying to create a simple login test from cucumber features. The feature statement is: Given the user is not logged in The step definition for this is confounding me. In the application_controller the authlogic tutorial recommends the following: private def require_user unless current_user store_location flash[:notice] =

Right now in my view, I have a whole HUGE clump of <% if current_user %> and then <% if current_admin %> and then <% if current_teacher %> and then all that other stuff in my view. I have a ginourmous chunk of if and else statements in my views... is there a way to make it prettier? The if and else''s almost all have the same functions, expect for some minor changes.

I am using authlogic as a authentication engine in my rails app. I have two types of users 1) Users who are registered and has access to there own profile. 2) Admin user who has access to everybody''s profile In the user table i have a :is_admin field boolean field which defines the admin user. like the current_user method, Is there a way authlogic provides which can tell me if the

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

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"

Newb here. I have a form and a value that is being displayed ... and I have no idea where the value came from. I have done a <%= debugger; '''' %> in the form and, indeed, the debugger stops at the statement. I have tried to trace through the code to see where the value came from ... and I gave up. So ... what in Rails initializes the fields of a form? -- Posted via

OK ... so I''m not supposed to use it but ... Why doesn''t rescue_from ActionController::RoutingError work witht he code from http://www.rubyplus.org/episodes/20-Extended-RESTful-Authentication-Rails-2-App.html class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base helper :all # include all helpers, all the time # See ActionController::RequestForgeryProtection for details

I use authlogic for authentication and paperclip for handling user''s profile picture attachments. I use the following method to get the current_user def current_user_session return @current_user_session if defined? (@current_user_session) @current_user_session = UserSession.find end def current_user return @current_user if defined?(@current_user)

Hi all, I am facing problem in getting subdomain name inside the model. The following is my setup. I am using cancan for authorization.I wanted a specific condition in Ability.rb ( the file which is placed in models if we install cancan gem). Below is the condition I wanted: ========================================================= user ||= User.new # guest user (not logged in) if

After I upgraded my Authlogic to 2.1.2 I''m facing an odd error when trying to use my webpage; it comes up with an error ''undefined method `^'' for "e":String''. I''ve double checked the lines in the Authlogic code (see codepad urls for the tracelog), but I can find no trace of any "^" in the code anywhere. The methods that result in

hello, i implementing a file upload using paperclip plugin. i getting the following error [1] when uploading a file. I''m using the gems rails v2.3.8 and paperclip v2.1.6. the parameter hash looks like [2], the model like [3]. Interesting is that i get two different errors, on the localhost with webrick it says: Status: 500 Internal Server Error no marshal_dump is defined for class

Hi: I am a newbie at ROR, and I am grasping my head around Authlogic. I am having hard time trying to figure out how can I do the following: in my application controller I have the following helpers: filter_parameter_logging :password, :password confirmattion helper_method :all private def current_user_session return @current_user_session if defined? (@current_user_session)

Hi, I am using Restful authentication for user authentication. I want the current logged in user object in my model property.rb Problem is current_user is not working on model. How can I fix this I need that? Please help me out. Thanks, Mike -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk"

I have been trying for a few days to set up a basic user registration/ login system with rails 3 and nearly every single piece of documentation is outdated. Restful_authentication has several git branches, none of which appear to result in a working installation. All of them leave me with "could not find generator authenticated". With Devise: "could not find generator devise"

Hi all I am using Authlogic gem for authentication.I want an API authentication for external API(XML) call.How to implement this in authlogic .Thanks in advance... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To

I''m trying to run some functional tests on Rails. However I am coming up with the following error. RuntimeError: Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4 -- if you really wanted the id of nil, use object_id app/controllers/posts_controller.rb:11:in `create'' posts_controller_test.rb:5:in `test_should_create'' Here is my test file require

I have 3 tables items (columns are: id, name , type) history(columns are: id, date, username, item_id, user_id) user(id , username, password) When a user "ABC" logs in and creates a new item, a history record gets created with the following after_create filter. How to set the username field in history table to "ABC". class Item < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :histories

Im new to Rails, and decided to start of with Rails3. After a lot of searching ive managed to get a little bit of Authlogic working. I''m able to register a user, login & logout. Now, I would like to add more features, get more of authlogic working. I''m using Railscast EP 160 as my reference. Portions of the code found on the tutorial throw errors: Eg: <!--