I have figured out everything except for how to add a new user to the
database. The book gives an example of adding a user through the
command line, and that works fine. I can login using a user created
that way. I cannot, however, figure out how to add a new user from a
form. The problem seems to occur when trying to except a user submitted
password (of which there is no corresponding DB listing) and generating
a salt and hash to be stored in the DB. The method in the user model:
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
how do I accept a password from a view from a form, generate the
password and salt and save it to the DB. Here is what I have for the
view form
View:
<%= form_tag({:action => ‘new_user’}, :multipart => true) %>
Username:
<%= text_field("user", "username", "size" => 20 ) %>
Password:
<%= text_field_tag("password",nil, "size" => 20 ) %>
<%= submit_tag(" Register ")%>
<%= end_form_tag %>
I changed the text_field to text_field_tag because the fact that
password is not a line in the DB was raising an error. I can’t figure
out how to handle this in the controller in :action => “new_user”
Thanks
chris