Comments on: Restful authentication with Rails 2: Usage

By: Ekerete

Ekerete — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:03:35 +0000

Yes, the logged_in helper is part of the plugin

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:00:42 +0000

where is logged_in supposed to be defined? is that a part of the plugin or is that something you’re supposed to define?

By: Ekerete

Ekerete — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:38:18 +0000

I’m afraid that section wasn’t explicit enough. All it’s trying to show is the usage of the logged_in method in a controller action.

The assumption is that a profile model which belongs to a user already exists.
For instance, you would do something like this to get a username:
if logged_in?
@username = current_user.login
end

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:18:43 +0000

First off, I’d like to say thank you for an excellent walkthrough of setting up this restful authentication plugin. I’m very, very new to Rails and this has really helped me to get a running start.

After I had walked through the installation process I was wondering – now how do I plug this into my soon-to-be running app? Glad to find this second part!

Question – in your ‘use the plugin methods in your controller’ section above, where is the app supposed to find the ‘profile’ method of current user or the ‘Profile’ object? I’m getting errors trying both methods.

Using @profile = Profile.find(current_user)
“uninitialized constant MPatController::Profile”

Using @profile = current_user.profile
“undefined method `profile’ for #”

I see no ‘profile’ method in any of the plugin code.

Please help…thanks!
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