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sorry, because it seems that I need more explanation on this Rails Recipes authorization - I finally got the code working but after using the login I get this back from Rails- Routing Error No url can be generated for the hash {} I''m guessing it''s coming from the redirect- def login if request.post? session[:user] = User.authenticate(params[:first_name],

Hi, The user/login management system in Chapter 31: Authenticating Your Users and Chapter 32: Authorizing Users with Roles of Chad Fowler''s Rails Recipes looks reasonable and adequate. However, when I ran the Chapter 31 code, I get the following error: Username or password invalid And I am not even given the chance to sign in; that is, the signin form does not appear at all. Has

Im still following the authorization recipe from the book, now all works fine but im getting trouble in how handle the model authorization result, if the user and pass are correct, it goes to a welcome screen(admin.rhtml) but if wrong the model prints a message in an ugly exception like page "usr and pass not correct", i want to redirect the user to the login

Didn''t think I''d be back so quick with another question but here goes: In this recipe for the signin or login (as I call it) there are these two lines if the user authenticates correctly: session[:user] = user.id redirect_to :action => session[:intended_action], :controller => session[:intended_controller] So I''m not seeing anything in the way of an explanation

I''ve got these two lines set up in my controller before_filter :check_authentication before_filter :check_max_hands, :only => [ :play ] Here''s the corresponding code for each def check_authentication unless session[:user] and authorize?(session[:user]) session[:intended_action] = request.request_uri redirect_to :controller => ''user'',

I''m using Rails Recipes to create a login form but instead of username and password, my setup is firstname, lastname, password. I seemed to be gramatically challenged and not sure how to set up the parameter list. Can anyone offer up a suggestion. The book shows the method starting like: if request.post? user = User.find(:first, :conditions => [''username = ?'' ,

What is the hex number after the method, e.g. +0x32f below? It matches arg0 and I suspect it''s the c++ "this" pointer, aka hidden first argument. I would like to confirm, though. Thanks, Joel --- XUL`PresShell::ProcessReflowCommands(int)+0x32f XUL`PresShell::FlushPendingNotifications(mozFlushType) +0x19e

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

Is there a more elegant way of writing this? def verify_user @user = User.find_by_username params[:username] if @user.nil? message = xml.error do |xm| xm.message "User does not exists: #{params[:username]}" end render :xml => message return false else true end end Thanks, Joel --

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

I''m trying to time a function within Firefoxwith a pid$target probe [2]. e.g dtrace -Zqw -x dynvarsize=64m -x evaltime=preinit -p 13954 -s menu- construct.d -s sigcont.d elapsed: 12.7942481ms cpu : 7.7911194ms count : 40 times I''m also measuring Firefox startup time by running it arguments like this: ... file:///Users/joelr/work/mozilla/startup/startup.html#`python

Suppose I have a USDT probe in Firefox and that I''m trying to catch the startup with a probe like this: proc:::exec-success /execname == "firefox-bin"/ { start = timestamp; } and stop tracing when Firefox hits this USDT probe: mozilla:::main-entry { exit(0); } How do I put the running firefox-bin into "trace mode" so that my USDT probe fires? Thanks, Joel

Folks, I checked my test_helper.rb and it has self.use_transactional_fixtures = true My code was generated with 1.1.2 and I''m using 1.1.3 right now after but the error persists. I googled for this issue and it appears that a require is missing or something like that. I can''t figure it out, please help! /opt/local/bin/ruby -Ilib:test

I added a couple of static probes to Firefox to measure actual work done. I could have used a pid$target probe with a function name but work is done within an if statement, which is where I placed the static probes. I''m wondering about my use, though. Is the following significantly more efficient than pid$target::FunName:entry and return? I heard somewhere that $target does not

I have a script where I can freely reference struct nameidata*, struct vnode*, etc. on Snow Leopard. How does DTrace know about these data types? I understand things like #pragma D depends_on library darwin.d where darwin.d has typedefs. I can''t find definitions of nameidata and vnode in any D scripts, though. How does it work? Thanks, Joel --- firefox for android!

I have a few pages where a user may do something (add tags, login, etc) and I would like to redirect them back to the last page they were at before calling that action. Is there an easy way to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Folks, I have the standard setup with auto-generated unit tests and fixtures. I edited the fixtures and the tests but would now like to test associations from irb. How do I do this? I''m not sure how to load my fixtures into irb, for example. Once they are loaded I would create objects, save them to the db and pull things out. Thanks, Joel -- http://wagerlabs.com/

Folks, I'm new to R and would like to use it to analyze web server performance data. I collect the data in this CSV format: 1304083104.41,Y,668.856249809 1304083104.41,Y,348.143193007 First column is a <seconds.microseconds> timestamp, rows with N instead of Y need to be skipped and the last column has the same format as the first column, except it's request duration (latency).

I''m just wondering what happened to Armageddon and whether people had any more information/news about it. I''ve thought about comet but I think that a flash socket would be easier to implement. Does Armageddon have the same drawbacks as other flash sockets, namely not working over port 80 (so the companies firewall blocks it)? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have two before_filters for a few of my controllers. They are running my own methods authorize and admin_authorize. authorize is called on just about every action to make sure that a user is logged in. admin_authorize is called on about 80% of the actions and is used to make sure that a user is an administrator. If a user tries to access an admin_authorize protected action without being