similar to: Redirect if session is nil

I need some help please.. when I created web application about books market, i create a cart and using test the message error appear like this on rake test:functionals LineItemsControllerTest > test_should_create_line_item > ERROR > Cannot redirect to nil! and also appear on web side, thats error told that "Cannot redirect to nil!" Then i was checking the code,

Hello Campers! Is it just me or does Camping init the session twice on a redirect? If I have an app and when the user visits it for the first time, a session is generated. Afterwards I redirect the user in a service (that basically does auth) and he gets bounced to the login page - but when I arrive at the login page my SID somehow has changed :-( so there is a stale session dangling

I am building an application that requires a C++ program to access the Rails web application using POST. Now, I just added user authentication to the mix and it has made things more interesting. I''m using basic authentication as shown in the AWDWR and Rails Recipes books. I can now get my C++ program to submit the user credentials to the login/login page. All I want the login page

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

Many of you probably know the ''depot'' app from the ''Agile Rails development'' book. I have constructed the ''products'' model, the Store-controller, and the ''Cart'' and ''Line Item'' classes. I have told Application-controller about :cart and :line_item: model :cart model :line_item Here''s part of

Hey all, Recently I''ve been looking into on how to return back to a previous referring URL and and the most common approach is: redirect_to session[:return_to] But some recommend: redirect_to(session.delete(:return_to) || default) How I understand it, in the second example we call session.delete so it will clear the return path since we will no longer need it, and we also use

Hello, I''m setting up an authentication module that will be called from application.rb. I want to save a rrequest.request_uri into a session to be used as a place holder that will take users back to the page they were on before they logged in. I''m trying to call the store_location method for all methods EXCEPT login by putting login in an except before filter. For some

hello! i have a problem checking a session. i want to check if the session exists, and then redirect somewhere, but in the if-loop, if the session doesnt exist, i become an error im trying to do something like: if @session[''user''] == nil redirect_to ... else redirect_to ... end but as i said, the loop doesnt work, because i become the error before it checks. how can i

Hello, I know how to share sessions between subdomains in PHP. Can anyone please guide me as to how I can share sessions using Ruby? Where can I set the value of domain for which the cookie is set? I would like for a user to login on the home page and then go to blog.home.com and not have to login again. Any guidance/pointers are appreciated. Thanks''

This might seem really simple to some but just wanted to ask: what is the difference between @session[''user''] and session[:user] ? and how would you use each? And another question, I have the following code: def get_customer if @session[''customer''] @c = Customer.find(@session[''customer'']) end end private def

Hello all, There seems to be a bug in internet explorer 5 where a redirect causes the session to be lost. A controller says.... def login case @request.method when :post if @session[:user] = User.authenticate(@params [:user_login], @params[:user_password]) return redirect_to(:action=>''send_confirmation'') unless

#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 All, I''m trying to prevent users from deleting a folder that has contents like this: class Folder < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :myfiles has_many :folders belongs_to :folder validates_uniqueness_of :name, :scope => "folder_id" before_destroy :dont_destroy_folder_with_contents def dont_destroy_folder_with_contents if Folder.find(id) != nil ||

Hi all, I''ve put new code into my app so that an administrator will have extra privileges (administer users, edit pages). The error is: ''Couldn''t find User without an ID'' So the app is looking for a logged in user when the homepage is accessed. Heres my code: site/index view: <% if is_logged_in? and logged_in_user.has_role?(''Moderator'')

I have a search page asking for some criteria. The search method in my controller does its thing and sets the @assignments collection. Then finally I do the following redirection to the report page so that I can show the results nicely. Before doing the following, I print the contents of the collection and it is not nil. redirect_to :action => ''report'' I have an empty method

I am getting this error on the redirect_to command ... I am using Rails 3 w Paperclip to upload files ( but I tried also CarrierWave .. same error) I tried to change the session store from cookie-based to database .. same error I tried to delete the params content ... I don''t know what to try next .. any clue ? thanks erwin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

In the Agile WD book it states regarding sesion data- "Rails uses the cookie-based approach". This can''t be entirely true can it ? Not that I''m complaining if it was but isn''t there some equivalent to say, PHP sessions ? Or am I wrong. Stuart -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I realize thi may be more complex issue than can be asnwered in this post. But, what I need to do is create a simple query on my existing tables via a search form. I have half my app done (I can write all the info I want to my database), but pulling the data out dynamically is giving me trouble. I have both the "ruby for rails" book and the Agile Development book. They both give

Hi all, I am running on Windows XP sp2 with ruby 1.8.6, and rails 1.2.3 I am using REST, and have this in my view <% form_for(:project, :url => project_path(:user_id => @project.my_user, :id => @project), :html => {:method => :put}) do |f| %> The browser correctly gives <form method="post" action="/users/2/projects/1">

If I do get :index response.should_be_success I get about 20k of marshalled dumpage that starts like #<ActionController::TestResponse:0x390443c @body=\"<html><body>You are being <a href=\"http://test.host/carts/1\">redirected</a>.</body></html>\", @assigns=[], @redirected_to={:action=>\"show\", :id=>1},