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Folks, I''m trying to write a validating filter that checks if the user exists and renders XML if not. Most of the controllers will be returning XML on some error or other so I''m including RenderError in ApplicationController. Is my approach a sound one? Also, is there a shorter and more idiomatic way of writing this: if @user.nil? render_user_exists

i am trying to create a system so that different users have different priviliges on my application. i was going to modify my authorize function so that i could pass the required role to it and have it check the current user for that role. i am using before_filter and would like to have just one function instead of writing one for each role like so: authorize(role) instead of:

Can I set an application wide instance variable that is available for all actions...and their views? eg. class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base @current_user = User.find(session[:user_id]) end and everywhere I can call @current_user.id and I can get that object? Even down in the views? I could not get this to work... Thanks in advance, Jeff -------------- next part

I've pulled out the no-longer-necessary remnants of the old way of handling auth and before_filters as well as fixing a couple bugs that had crept in along the way. Unit test fixes for the refactoring will follow in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Scott Seago <sseago at redhat.com> --- src/app/controllers/application.rb | 46 ----------------

Hi! I was trying to cleanup my app and I runned into quite a problem. My controllers in submodule do not seem to inherit things from base class. I have following setup: app/controllers/ application.rb: class ApplicationController admin/ admin_controller.rb: class Admin::AdminController < ApplicationController include LoginEngine include UserEngine

I have some finders in my models where I write some of the sql myself. I of course want to test these, but am not sure the best way. Should I just let them roll through to the db, and verify they return the correct objects based on the fixtures I load, or should I spec the actual query? I know that DB access is sort of frowned upon, but is this a situation where it is more or less acceptable? My

Hello everyone, I am just starting a project for school in RoR and I am a complete n00b ^^ Here''s my problem : I need to get the user''s login stored in the session but for some reason I cannot. Here''s my login method code : def login if request.post? @user = User.find_by_username(params[:login]) if @user and @user.password_is? params[:password]

i have a controller like this: class SpoilageController < DataEntryController before_filter { check_access_key(''_SP'') } ... and in the parent class is this: class DataEntryController < ApplicationController def check_access_key(key) if !@session[:user].admin && !@session[:user].data_entry_access.to_s.upcase.include?(key) render

Hi all I want to outsource an extension for ApplicationController, that I had in application.rb so far, into a plugin. I have created this plugin, and in init.rb I load require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/lib/application_controller'' In lib/application_controller.rb I have the following code: class ApplicationController before_filter :prepare_user ... end This worked

Hello there, I''m creating a base controller for the admin section of a project. All controllers whitin the admin section will inherit from it. ##################################################### #app/controllers/admins/base_controller.rb class Admins::BaseController < ApplicationController layout "admin_cms" before_filter :authenticate_admin! end

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

Slowly figuring out how to get my SaltedHashLoginGenerator stuff working. The wiki page says to put "before_filter :login_required" in the user (my "user" is "member") controller or in ApplicationController. However, wherever I put it I get NoMethodError. The rest of the SHLG stuff seems to be working... or at least I could get to the signup page, register, and

Hi! I want to add a function with a static paramter ("2" in the example) to a filter, but somehow Rails seems to be looking for another syntax. before_filter :check_quantity(2), :only => [:show] doesn''t work. What''s the right way to do this? Thanks a lot! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hie Guys Has anyone managed to run VMware WorkStation 10.0.3 on CentOS 7? Mine ask for some modules to be compiled and loaded into the running Kernel before VMware can run, then an ERROR copy or error below: 2014-07-21T09:01:41.429+02:00| vthread-3| I120: The header path "/lib/modules/3.10.0-123.4.2.el7.x86_64/build/include" for the kernel "3.10.0-123.4.2.el7.x86_64"

Hi folks - Seeing a weird problem and would love some help. It''s documented in http://pastie.org/278310 to be more readable. In short, I have a caches_page "action", :if => {stuff} but the :if is never being called - the action is just caching every time. (If I put a debugger call in the :if block, it never stops.) If I replace caches_page with caches_action, the if

Hello again, It''s possible to use before_filter in the application_controller, and exclude for some methods from other controllers ? i have a before_filter in application_controller that checks if the user is logged, if the time hasn''t expired, ... and I want to exclude some methods of this check, like the login. This ''login'' belongs to other controller. I

Dear friends, I hope this email finds you all well. This is the dataset I am working with: dput(random_mod12_data2) structure(list(Index = c(1L, 5L, 11L, 3L, 2L, 8L, 9L, 4L), x = c(5, 13, 25, 9, 7, 19, 21, 11), n = c(500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500), r = c(100, 211, 391, 147, 122, 310, 343, 176), ratio = c(0.2, 0.422, 0.782, 0.294, 0.244, 0.62, 0.686, 0.352)), row.names = c(NA, -8L),

Hi all I have the following class: class MemberController < ApplicationController before_filter :authorize, :except => :index def index ... end Now I want to give the before_filter more than one :except argument. I tried :except => {:index, :login}, but this didn''t work. How can i accomplish this? Thanks a lot and have a nice day, Josh -- Posted via

Hello everyone, I''ve decided to take the step into creating a mini-forum for my website where users can open new posts on exixting topics and allow people to discuss things etc... I am following a tutorial in the book: APRESS - Practical Rails Social Networking Sites and have hit a minor issue. Part of the Forum requirements is to add a moderator role to allow only certain individuals

I''ve successfully gotten acts_as_authenticated working. Currently the before_filter line for my admin screen is like this: class AdminController < ApplicationController include AuthenticatedSystem before_filter :login_required Only issue I have now is that anyone logged in can access that screen. I''d like to differentiate between a regular user and