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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

Newbie learning Rails. I''m currently on Chp9 here: http://railstutorial.org/chapters/sign-in-sign-out#top At the end of the tutorial, rails is erroring (see below). being new to Rails and after having checked the tutorial... How do you resolve this kind of error. It''s saying current_user is not defined, and it is supposed to be defined with/Sites/sample_app/app/helpers/

#user.rb ------> Model class User < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :email, :name, :password, :password_confirmation has_secure_password before_save :create_remember_token . . . . . . . private def create_remember_token self.remember_token = SecureRandom.urlsafe_base64 end end #sessions_controller.rb ------->

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

So how do you work with cookies properly in rspec now? I noticed in the docs that it mentions session, assigns, and flash, but nothing of cookie. I''m using edge rails so I''m concerned about changes to the cookie mechanisms. I need to assign values into the cookie (a remember token for restful authentication) so that I can have it log in by cookie. here is my spec

Hi everyone, I''m working through the tutorial at the following link and attempting to customise/adapt the lessons for my own slightly different application. Link: Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example | Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book and screencasts | by Michael Hartl <http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book> I''m currently trying to work

I am trying to deploy my first rails app with Dreamhost. I ftp''d over my existing app, turned on Passenger and pointed it to my /public directory. When I go to ''www.mydomain.com'' I get the ''Ruby on Rails: Welcome aboard'' default page, including the following: Getting started Here’s how to get rolling: 1. Create your databases and edit

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

Anyone have any idea why a named route would NOT work? I did rake routes to make sure it was there and it was but for some reason new_session doesn''t work. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group,

I am new to Ruby on Rails in general and apologize if this question is trivial and/or has been asked before ( my searches did not turn up any threads ). I am using the cookies function from actionpack which I have located in my vendor/rails/actionpack directory. Using: cookies[:username] and cookies[:password] from within a controller file works just fine, I am able to set and read

hi the strangest thing is happening. on my local machine acts_as_authenticated works fine, but whe on the server [dreamhost] it refuses to log in. no error messages. nothing. just reloads the login page again. here`s my action: def login return unless request.post? flash[:notice] = "Incorrent login" self.current_user = User.authenticate(params[:login], params[:password])

I''ve got User has_one Shop. Rails is not validating when I tried create_shop or build_shop, neither in the browser nor the rails console. My code: class Shop < ActiveRecord::Base attr_protected :user_id belongs_to :user validates_presence_of :name, :primary_address, :city, :country_code, :currency end class ShopsController < ApplicationController before_filter

Hi, I wrote a authentication script and I''m calling it like this in every class: class Blah < ApplicationController before_filter :auth def auth req_perm = Permission.find_by_name("Permission Blah") access = AccessController.new() if access.is_logged_in(session.session_id) if !access.get_current_user(session.session_id).role.permissions.include? req_perm redirect_to

Hello, My name is Javier Molina and I am programming a simple app to manage users in Ruby on Rails. I read RoR Tutorial from http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/sign-in-sign-out#top to sign in and sign out my app. I implemented the same configuration as it said: *sessions_helper.rb* def sign_out self.current_user = nil cookies.delete(:remember_token) end

Hi everyone, I need several pages to be static but also modify when requested. I try following the railcast from Ryan at http://railscasts.com/episodes/117-semi-static-pages?view=comments Here what I have done!! rails g scaffold Pages name:string permanentlink:string title:string author:string access_level:string is_published:boolean meta_description:string meta_keyword:string

Hello there, I just noticed a kinda weird thing: if users log in with the ''Remember Me'' option enabled, their records in the db get updated everytime the user reloads a page, because apparently restful_authentication''s code updates the remember_token_expires_at & remember_token attributes for each page load (not only once on the actual login (from cookie).

How would I do authentication and authorization in a single page application running with Rails as the backend? Any recommendations? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

How does a person test private methods? Is there a way to declare them as private, but retain any tests that were written during the initial development? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I keep getting this exception "SQLite3::SQLException: no such column: books.user_id: SELECT "books".* FROM "books" WHERE ("books".user_id = 4)" ,which sounds like there is no user_id in books table.So i just installed foreigner plugin and added " t.integer :user_id, :null => false" and "add_foreign_key(:books, :users)" in book

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