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Folks, My understanding of how filters work is that I should return true if everything is ok and false if not. How does the filter below work then (from the Rails Recipies book)? It would return nil if there''s a user in the session. Does nil count as true? before_filter :check_authentication def check_authentication unless session[:user] session[:intended_action] =

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

Ticket #3082 details a fix to add a body to redirect pages. This seems like an old patch, but only now is it biting me. I have an authentication scheme like this: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base before_filter :check_authentication, :except => [:signin] def check_authentication return true if session[:user] session[:return_to] = request.request_uri if

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

Hi i''m new with ruby on rails. And i''m trying to build an application with an authentication method, I''m using the Recipe from the book "Rails Recipes". The thing is that i wrote the procedure inside the Login controller class, but when i try to access it I got an exception that say "couldn''t find Login With ID=signin" (signin is the method

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

Hello, I am currently working on implementing some authentification code onto Instiki (0.11.0). I am encountering a problem in this situation : When I try to access say http:/localhost:2500/orz/show/Test , where orz is an instiki web name, I am redirected to my signin form screen (which is what I want) but then upon signing in I get the following message: No url can be generated for the hash

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],

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

Hi all, I''m running into this frustrating issue with the acts_as_authenticated plugin and one of the additional fields I added to the users table. I have added a column ''account_type'' to the users table (among several others) which denotes the type of account it is. This stores an integer value that is set by the system during account creation. The value is getting set

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 am trying to run a test of my app buy my relationships_controller_spec.rb file won''t run. Here''s the error I get: Exception encountered: #<NameError: uninitialized constant RelationshipsController> Here''s the code for my relationships_controller_spec.rb file: require ''spec_helper'' describe RelationshipsController do describe "access

Hi There, I am trying to write my first tests for a role bassed authentication taken from Rails Recipies. Whenever I add: assert_redirected_to :action => ''login'' I get the following error: NoMethodError: undefined method `first'' for :user:Symbol /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.1/lib/action_controller/assertions/response_assertions.rb:72:in

I have this page that you login in from. You get authenticated and then bumped over to the appropriate page depending on what your role is: Traveler, Travel Manager, Admin. All pieced work except for the role asssociated with Travel Managers who get tossed out, apprarently when they hit a before_filter to check authenication. However, it seams that they are properly getting authenticated and moved

Hi all, I''m learning Rails by Example (chapter 11), by Michael Hartl ( http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/user-microposts#top) but I got no route matches when I try to delete one micropost. the _micropost html is... <tr> <td class="micropost"> <span class="content"><%= micropost.content %></span> <span

Hello, My Question: ------------ How can one have the equivalent of "before_filter" checking (e.g. to require a user to be logged in before carrying out an action) on a method when the method is called implicitly inside another action (the before_filter doesn''t seem to get run)? Background: ------------ So in this instance I have a restful controller that allows users to

I just spent a few hours tracking down a bug in Rails 1.1, so I thought I''d post the issue and a workaround just in case anyone else hits it. I designed a security enhancement so that controller methods can be protected by preceding them with a role. The standard Ruby method_added() callback is used to detect when controller methods are added, and then I manipulate the

I''ve been battling with assert_select in my integration tests for several evenings now. I''m testing a multi-step form, and after submitting the first step, my assert_selects fail on the attempts to find the form on the next page. However if I print out the response object, it has the exact text of what I''m trying to match. Here is the complete integration test. The

Hi I''m trying to use before_filter to allow access to a site. Only logged in users can view any object in the controller, but only users with a access_level higher than 2 can view specific objects. My code is: ----------------------------------------------------------- IN USER_CONTROLLER before_filter :login_required before_filter :access_granted, :only => [:destroy, :new , :edit]

HI, I''ve gotten this Rails Recipe running fine (a bit before I completely understand it) except when the signin is incorrect I return an error(below). All I want is to either have the incorrect signin redirected to "store" rhtml or to a refreshed and empty signin. Any clues??? TIA Chas ######From Browser ##### http://localhost:3000/admin/signin RuntimeError in