Simply Rails 2 Ch.8 Controller

[axelsword]

Hello!

I followed this nice book, but in Chapter 8 I ran into trouble when creating login form.

I think I did everything right, didn't use code base but typed code manually. I can enter anything into login form but the redirect doesn't function:

1. render :action=>'new'
2. redirect_to stories_path

Maybe it has something to do with the update fail that is described in Chapter 1. I ran into errors when using console commands to update rails and ruby.

Chapter 8 describes that the code in sessions_controller.rb should skip create.html.erb view when action 'new' is used, that is the form written earlier is submitted, but that doesn't occur in my case.

Please help.

[Mittineague]

Hi axelsword, welcome to the forums.

Does your sessions_controller.rb file look something like (depending on where you are in chapter 8)

class SessionsController < ApplicationController
  def new
  end
 
  def create
    @current_user = User.find_by_login_and_password(
        params[:login], params[:password])
    if @current_user
      session[:user_id] = @current_user.id
      if session[:return_to]
        redirect_to session[:return_to]
        session[:return_to] = nil
      else
        redirect_to stories_path
      end
    else
      render :action => 'new'
    end
  end
 
  def destroy
    session[:user_id] = @current_user = nil
  end
 
end

[axelsword]

All right, I see the mistake. Well, I did feel sleepy and tired, my mind on different other things rather than programming in Ruby that I needed to do. I'll have to be more careful next time.

Heres my sessions_controller.rb

class SessionsController < ApplicationController
 
  def new
		@current_user=User.find_by_login_and_password(params[:login], params[:passrowd])
 
		if @current_user
			session[:user_id]=@current_user.id
			redirect_to stories_path
		else
			render :action=>'new'
		end
  end
 
  def create
  end
 
  def destroy
  end
end

[axelsword]

What else? Why is there no "edit post" button? Noticed one earlier, must be time sensitive. Hmmph. All right, spotted the error: what is passrowd?

@current_user=User.find_by_login_and_password(
  params[:login], params[:passrowd])

Anyway, let's see wether it works now. Getting a little tired with this mistake hunting.

*Edit*
Still, there is this second issue - back in who-knows-what-chapter when the button "shove it" was created, in my case it does not work as expected. I press the button but no redirect. I refresh the page manually and I see that the score has increased. I could use some help debugging that too. I use WinXp and FireFox 3.5.5.

Thanks