I have been struggling with this for a while and am at a loss. I have a
form allowing current users to log in and new users to create an
account. Upon hitting the submit buttons (one for each action) a method
gets called either ‘new_user’ or ‘create_user’, both makes use of a
method in my user model called ‘authenticate’. The really weird part is
that for creating a new user authenticate works fine but not for
‘current_user’. To make things weirder, the calls are EXACTLY the same!
In method new_user:
if request.post? and @user.save
session[:user] = User.authenticate( params[:user][:email],
params[:user]
[:password] ).id
redirect_to :action => ‘welcome’, :id => @user.id
In current_user
if [email protected]? and User.authenticate( params[:user][:email],
params[:user]
[:password] )
session[:user] = User.authenticate( params[:user][:email],
params[:user]
[:password] ).id
flash[:notice] = “<b style = “color:red”>Worked”
redirect_to :action => ‘welcome’, :id => @user.id
Authenticate looks like:
def self.authenticate(email, password)
user = User.find(:first, :conditions => [‘upper(email) = ?’,
email.upcase])
if user.blank? ||
Digest::SHA256.hexdigest(password+user.password_salt)
!= user.password_hash
#raise “Unknown userid or password”
else
user
end
end
Erro message when current_user method is called:
can’t convert nil into String
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/models/user.rb:18:in +' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/models/user.rb:18:inauthenticate’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/music_controller.rb:64:in `current_user’
Now, given the fact that the call to new user works without throwing any
errors I’m amusing (aparently wrongfully) that the call to current_user
should work as well, especially since I can see that all the correct
parameters are being passed and therefore know that password is not
infact nil? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks,
-Shandy