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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

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

i got the rails recipes book, i have now an auth system for users without problems, now i want to made a role based acces for my app, im following the "Role Based Authorization" recipe of the book but i cant make it to work even when the tables created and correctly added data manually definig the roles and rights. als i dont know how to define a right for use all the actions in a

I am having some problems with variable scoping. I need to be able to set a variable that is accessable by other methods within the class (or instance) (i.e not global). An example is 2 pages that change a class variable: class AjtestController < ApplicationController def initialize @@variable = "init" end def show @display = @@variable @@variable = "change 1"

Hello all, Thank you in advance for your help with this. I am trying to implement the user authentication method from Ruby Recipes which calls for the use of SHA 2. Here is the code for the password: def password=(pass) salt = [Array.new(6){rand(256).chr}.join].pack("m").chomp self.password_salt, self.password_hash = salt, Digest::SHA256.hexdigest(pass + salt) end I open

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

I want to put a before_filter in application.rb, as follows: before_filter :do_something, :except_controller => [:admin] def do_something(options) options.stringify_keys! unless options[:except_controller].include?(controller_name) # do something useful end end Where I''m blocking is on how to get the ''options'' data in the do_something method. I think I

I have an app that varies its content based upon the domain from which it is being accessed. Some of the domain characteristics are supported in the model but it is easier varying static text in the views and then sharing the form templates via partials etc. Rails 2.3.10 and looking at the documentation at

Hi I have this list page that has some rjs templates updating parts of it including a table of results. i''m trying to put pagination on the table. thing is lots of different actions update the table and they have their own paginators. anyway i have this code at the bottom which worked for another page <%= pagination_links_each(@offer_pages,:window_size =>4) do |n|

I leave a notice in the flash and do a redirect from a before_filter. Can someone confirm that the first request after this, i.e. the page I redirect to, doesn''t/isn''t supposed to clear the flash? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/flash%2C-before_filter-and-redirect_to-t1367103.html#a3665933 Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at Nabble.com.

I have an AccountsController that inherits from ApplicationController. In ApplicationController I define a generic layout. In this layout I render @title that is actually assigned in the AccountsController but has a default value in ApplicationController. In the layout template, I also have the standard contents_for_layout and lastly, I have a render_component. The component called from the

Hi Is there some definitive guide for upload progress plugin ? We have in this mailing list a lot of testimonials, bug reports, bug fixes, but there are still people like me who cannot use it correctly. Here is my config: - mongrel 1.0RC and upload progress plugin 0.2.1 - a 6 mongrels cluster - config/mongrel_upload_progress.conf: uri "/", :handler =>

Hi Champs, Need Help .. :( Actually the thing is that i am having many controllers a, b, c and d.. But what i want it that only "a" should be displayed to the users .. b, c, d not .. Is there any way to do it .. ? Cheers .. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

If I am in controller A and I want to show the index of controller B, how would I do that? -- 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, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To

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

Question for you all is it possible to use an action in an if statement? I am using the same form for edit and new and I have a cancel button on the page. This cancel button is built with an if statement that looks right now to see if a parameter exists to define where to go back to if the user cancel. The problem occurs when the user submits the form and there are missing fields by

I have an iPhone version of my site, and for some reason none of the rjs works when viewing the iPhone version. This happens instead: ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template controller_name/ update.erb in view path app/views) The rjs works fine when viewing the site normally, and it worked when viewing the iPhone version prior to upgrading Rails to 2.3.2. Additional info: I have

hi, i''ve got main site navigation in the application.rhtml file. the links in this template correspond to the ''index'' page of various controllers. The controllers themselves each have navigation of their own, which i would like to appear in every view for a particular controller in *addition* to the main site navigation. The problem I am encountering is that

Hello, Rather new to RoR, so I''m not sure about the terminology and such :-/ . My question is: how could I know the model which is associated to a controller? For example: - controller class is TestController, which is a subclass of ApplicationController - associated model class is Test How could I write some code in a method of ApplicationController to dermine the current

The portion of the log linked below is two requests directly out of the log file for the same action. The first request was from me putting the address in the browser directly (but can be duplicated by linking to the url anywhere in the app). When I reload the browser on this url, I get a strange error. To the user, the action appears to load fine, but I''m getting a 500 error in the log