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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"

Hey People, I''ve been working on Rails 3.0.0 and Authlogic for quite a while now but all of a sudden I can''t login into my application anymore. After some research I found out that no sessions are stored into the db anymore so I started the console and saw this: ruby-1.9.2-p0 > u = UserSession.new({:username => ''Test'', :password =>

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

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: <!--

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)

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 am using authlogic for my application''s authentication. If I decide to login with an account and then immediately logout, I get an error. Unknown action The action ''show'' could not be found for UserSessionsController The server log in development says: Started GET "/user_session" for 127.0.0.1 at Sun Nov 07 13:28:31 -0800 2010

In an app where ordinary users are limited to viewing and editing their own "stuff", but someone with admin privs can view and edit anybody''s stuff, what''s the right strategy for routing? At first blush, I''d think that an ordinary user (e.g. with id 565) should see something like: http://example.com/mystuff.html ... where the controller assumes

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

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"

Hello, I upgraded my application from Rails 2 to Rails 3 and ran into a problem. In rails 2 I could use the english name of the record to find it like: Page.find_by_name("Welcome") even though the user chose German as the language (which of course showed the German welcome page. Eversince I switched to Rails 3 (default_locale still :en) I can''t find anything by giving the

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

Hey Guys, How could I fix the following: "gem install --no-rdoc --no-ri kete-feedzirra" ERROR: could not find gem kete-feedzirra locally or in a repository "gem install --no-rdoc --no-ri libxml-ruby" ERROR: could not find gem libxml-ruby locally or in a repository "gem install --no-rdoc --no-ri http_url_validation_improved" ERROR: could not find gem

Hello, i have "a" has many "b", "b" has many "c", and "c" has many "d" Now... "d" is a user model, and I have a current_user helper method defined. If i navigate to an "a" show page, how can I make sure that my current_user ("d") is part of that "a"? meaning how can i make sure that

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)

Rails is throwing this error C:/Ruby/Depot/app/views/products/index.html.erb:28: syntax error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG, expecting keyword_do or ''{'' or ''('' ...er.privilege == 50 ? {link_to ''Show'', product} : ''a'' );@out... in line <%= current_user.privilege == 50 ? {link_to ''Show'', product} :

question re authlogic, all set up but now i''d ike to control access to a resource so only users who own that resource can control it, I figure I put this in the Advert controller - is this approach sound ? http://pastie.org/1069488 I also specify that an admin (just a boolean controlled user) can edit everything... is it good ? User, has many Adverts and Advert belongs to a User Just

Hello Finished reading chapter 9 and im a little bit confused. 1. In the tutorial, Modules are used instead of creating a Model and working in a class inside a module , like in authenticating passwords. Wouldn''t that be possible? Or is it unnecessary since we''re not messing with a database in terms of storing data? 2. what is the difference between session[:remember_token] =

Please Im trying to create an application where i can post like twitter, but i was the users name to be posted under their respective posts My Post_controller looks like this def index @posts = Post.all(:order => "created_at DESC") @users = User.find(:all) #@user_id = current_user.find(params[:id]) respond_to do |format| format.html end end def create

Good evening, I''ve got three different self-programmed Rails application I need to connect and manage with a 4th "supervisor" application. There''s a wiki application, there''s a shop application and there''s a business directory application all with seperate user database etc. What I want now is one single user table so it can be all controlled by one