Crypt_unless_empty (login generator)

I have a form for users to change their account details, including their
password.
Here’s my form:

First name(s)

<%= text_field ‘user’, ‘first’ %>

Surname

<%= text_field ‘user’, ‘name’ %>

Telephone

<%= text_field ‘user’, ‘tel’ %>

email

<%= text_field ‘user’, ‘email’ %>

Login
<%= text_field 'user', 'login' %>
Choose password:

Confirm password:

and here's my controller method: def update_user @user = User.find(params[:id]) @project = Project.find(params[:project]) @company = Company.find(params[:company]) if @request.post? and @user.update_attributes(params[:user]) User.authenticate(@user.login, @params[:user][:password]) flash[:notice] = 'User was successfully updated' redirect_back_or_default :action => 'index', :project => @project, :company => @company end end It's all working well and the errors are listed if fields don't validate. However, I want the update to be successful if the two password fields are left empty (user doesn't want to change their password). according to the comments in the user model, the method crypt_unless_empty should catch this before update and I presume allow the record through. This isn't working for some reason and I get 3 errors: - Password confirmation can't be blank - Password can't be blank - Password is too short (min is 5 characters)

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this doesn’t work (and how I
can
get it working)?
Regards
Adam
PS: Has anyone used the login generator in a commercial rails
application?

adam.groves wrote:

I have a form for users to change their account details, including their
password.
Here’s my form:

First name(s)

<%= text_field ‘user’, ‘first’ %>

Surname

<%= text_field ‘user’, ‘name’ %>

Telephone

<%= text_field ‘user’, ‘tel’ %>

email

<%= text_field ‘user’, ‘email’ %>

Login
<%= text_field 'user', 'login' %>
Choose password:

Confirm password:

and here's my controller method: def update_user @user = User.find(params[:id]) @project = Project.find(params[:project]) @company = Company.find(params[:company]) if @request.post? and @user.update_attributes(params[:user]) User.authenticate(@user.login, @params[:user][:password]) flash[:notice] = 'User was successfully updated' redirect_back_or_default :action => 'index', :project => @project, :company => @company end end It's all working well and the errors are listed if fields don't validate. However, I want the update to be successful if the two password fields are left empty (user doesn't want to change their password). according to the comments in the user model, the method crypt_unless_empty should catch this before update and I presume allow the record through. This isn't working for some reason and I get 3 errors: - Password confirmation can't be blank - Password can't be blank - Password is too short (min is 5 characters)

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this doesn’t work (and how I
can
get it working)?
Regards
Adam
PS: Has anyone used the login generator in a commercial rails
application?

I’m having a very similar problem and haven’t been able to find a
solution.

We want users to be able to edit their settings WITHOUT having to
re-enter their passwords, so we’re using before_update
:crypt_unless_empty to properly populate the password field of the
object to be updated.

Unfortunately, it would seem that the object to be updated attempts to
validate its fields BEFORE applying the before_update directives, so
blank passwords are invalidated before they can be corrected by the
crypt_unless_empty function. This seems like really poor behavior but
it’s all I can come up with to explain what we’re seeing. Any advice is
greatly appreciated. Thanks.

hai

hai

Modify ur model class by including the lines below

validates_uniqueness_of :login, :on => :update
validates_confirmation_of :password, :on => :update
validates_length_of :login, :within => 3…40, :on => :update
validates_length_of :password, :within => 5…10, :on => :create
validates_presence_of :login, :password, :password_confirmation ,:on
=> :create
validates_confirmation_of :password
if !([:password].empty?)
User.validates_length_of :password, :within => 5…10
end

		attr_accessor :password
 		attr_accessible :name, 

:password,:first_name,:last_name,:office_phone,:mobile_phone,:email,:login,:password_confirmation
before_create :crypt_password

		before_update :crypt_unless_empty

sure!!! It will work

On Saturday 21 Jan 2006 09:32, Alex Rudnitski wrote:

But I have the other problem: how to make password field to be blank by
default, on update user detalis page? Not 40 digits hash pussword.

I initially got this working by using password_field_tag rather than
password_field on my form, so it just creates the blank password fields
and
never puts the values from the model in them. Combine that with the
crypt_unless_empty stuff, and you have quite a neat solution, so for
example,
in my form where the user can update their own password I had (THIS IS
NOT MY
FINAL SOLUTION):

Password
<%= password_field_tag 'user[password]' %>

Confirm Password
<%= password_field_tag 'user[password_confirmation]' %>

Whenever there is a model error and you have to re-enter something, the
password fields do not retain what you just typed in them, meaning you
have
to type it again. I think this is a fairly standard thing to do - or at
least, hardly unexpected behaviour? (Net result if you then didn’t type
anything in before updating would be that the password would not change,
so
no major disaster there.)

HOWEVER, in order to trick the model into accepting these parameters,
you have
to include the square brackets in the fieldname, which then gives you
invalid
IDs in your HTML. I couldn’t spot a way to manually set the ID on
password_field_tag, so instead I just went for the simplest option,
which was
to specify the HTML directly instead of using helpers go generate it:

Password

Confirm Password

I’m not sure if that would be considered an un-Rails-like way of doing
it, but
it’s extremely simple and it works, so I don’t think it’s too much of a
sin
overall, unless anyone thinks otherwise? It follows the KISS principle
at
least. :wink:

Cheers,

~Dave

Dave S.
Rent-A-Monkey Website Development

PGP Key: http://www.rentamonkey.com/pgpkey.asc

On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 00:32, Dave S. wrote:

Whenever there is a model error

D’uh, I meant a “validation” error, not a “model” error… excuse the
brainfart!

~Dave

Dave S.
Rent-A-Monkey Website Development

PGP Key: http://www.rentamonkey.com/pgpkey.asc

Adam G., I’m also working on login system, the solution you
searching could be found here Problem with updating model - Rails - Ruby-Forum I
make checking if the password field is blank in controller

def edit
@edituser = User.find_first([“id = ?”,params[:id]])
if @request.post?
if not @edituser.nil?
@edituser.login = @params[:edituser][:login]
@edituser.birthday = @params[:edituser][:birthday]
@edituser.login = @params[:edituser][:login]
if not @params[:edituser][:password].nil? and
@params[:edituser][:password] ==
@params[:edituser][:password_confirmation] and
@params[:edituser][:password] != “”
@edituser.password = @params[:edituser][:password]
end
end
end
end

But I have the other problem: how to make password field to be blank by
default, on update user detalis page? Not 40 digits hash pussword. Also
I have problem with updating user birthday date, can anybody tell the
raason? Full dascription here Problem with updating model - Rails - Ruby-Forum