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I am a Rails newbie and I am trying to build a test site in which users will have their own sets of data. I understand how to manipulate shared data very well. Most of the Rails examples out there seem to deal with such shared data. I am struggling with the "best practice" method for a user to work with their own data however (and not be able to view/edit other users''

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

I have two tables: ------------------------------ drop table if exists users; create table users ( id int not null auto_increment, username varchar(100) not null, password varchar(20) not null, firstname varchar(20) not null, lastname varchar(20) not null, primary key (id) ) TYPE = InnoDB; ------------------------------ drop table

What do I need to do to be able to use an acts_as_authenticated current_user in a model? Is there some sort of include or require I can do some where that would allow this? ********************************************************** Here is what I am trying to do: ********************************************************** class Setting < ActiveRecord::Base before_create :created_by_user #

I''m going to take another stab at this question (my first one received no replies): I have two models: Author has_many: books Book has_one: author I have two tables: authors id ... books id author_id ... I let the scaffolding fly and it created the CRUD goodness for each model, as expected. However, I want to have only one view/controller "set" for both models; when I

People, I am using: before_filter :login_required in my Controllers and this works fine. For some tables I am happy to use the output of eg: ruby script/generate scaffold Author but is there some way that I can disable Create, Edit, Destroy for some user logins in the corresponding view? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box

Friends- Here is another plugin hot off the presses of the three day weekend ;) Its a role based authorization system. I have been talking with Bill Katz about this system so it ties in with his recent announcement as well. Its just my implementation. Its an acl/role type system that can sit on top of the acts_as_authenticated login system or any login system that implements a few

Hi all I have a Model like this: class Member < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :username, :email, :first_name, :last_name end I have created a scaffold using script/generate scaffold member members Using the URL localhost:3000/members/edit/1 I can edit all attributes, including created_at, lock_version etc.! But it should only show the attributes I listed in attr_accessible! What

Hi all, I''ve got stuck with this. Here''s the error message: NoMethodError in Account#index Showing account/index.rhtml where line #4 raised: undefined method `table_name'' for Upload:Class Extracted source (around line #4): 1: <h1>My account</h1> 2: 3: Login name: <%= current_user.login %> <br /> 4: Files uploaded: <%=

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]

Trying to add authlogic in a simple project but get the error; Showing app/views/layouts/application.html.erb where line #33 raised: undefined method `underscore'' for nil:NilClass Extracted source (around line #33): 30: <div id="mainleft"> 31: <ul class="menu"> 32: <li><%= nav_link "Home", "site", "index"

I am trying to deploy my first rails app with Dreamhost. I ftp''d over my existing app, turned on Passenger and pointed it to my /public directory. When I go to ''www.mydomain.com'' I get the ''Ruby on Rails: Welcome aboard'' default page, including the following: Getting started Here’s how to get rolling: 1. Create your databases and edit

I have a quick question on a problem of mine. I''ve done the ONLamp tutorial with scaffolding a recipe etc, and honesly I didn''t get really any wiser. So I decided to try it out on my own without scaffolding. However. Now I''m stuck with my edit-form. I need to update a row with old text in the ''pres'' column in the table called

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

Newbie learning Rails. I''m currently on Chp9 here: http://railstutorial.org/chapters/sign-in-sign-out#top At the end of the tutorial, rails is erroring (see below). being new to Rails and after having checked the tutorial... How do you resolve this kind of error. It''s saying current_user is not defined, and it is supposed to be defined with/Sites/sample_app/app/helpers/

I have the ability to send email to a user if a certain user has requested interest in their product. In my email I want to include certain information that is pulled from users but at the moment I am getting errors because it states that they are undefined despite these lines being used elsewhere in my application. I shall copy the email below and anything between the <% %> is what I wish

i found Ezra''s acl_system plugin yesterday and i am trying to figure it out. based on the simple instructions on the site, it does exactly what i need but i''m getting some errors when i try to use it: NoMethodError in UsersController#index You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occured while evaluating nil.roles i am pretty new to rails and

I''m basically a Ruby noobie. At the moment I''m having a fair bit of trouble trying to figure out what''s going wrong here (partial template): <%= @project = Project.find(@the_id) if current_user.userid == @project.client hidden_field ''messages'', ''recipient'', ''value'' => @project.project_manager

hi the strangest thing is happening. on my local machine acts_as_authenticated works fine, but whe on the server [dreamhost] it refuses to log in. no error messages. nothing. just reloads the login page again. here`s my action: def login return unless request.post? flash[:notice] = "Incorrent login" self.current_user = User.authenticate(params[:login], params[:password])

I use authlogic for authentication and paperclip for handling user''s profile picture attachments. I use the following method to get the current_user def current_user_session return @current_user_session if defined? (@current_user_session) @current_user_session = UserSession.find end def current_user return @current_user if defined?(@current_user)