# Acts\_as\_authenticated error **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 10, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-authenticated-error/131468 "2008-03-10T13:28:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![capslock118](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@capslock118](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capslock118)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-authenticated-error/131468/1 "2008-03-10T13:28:40Z")
I tried to use acts\_as\_authenticated on my site but I was getting some errors. I went to techno-weenie and found that they depreciated that for restful\_authentication instead. Ok, so I follow the instructions as laid out here: [http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/acts\_as\_authenticated/README](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/acts_as_authenticated/README) Also in the book I purchased “rails cookbook” Well I place in one of my controllers before\_filter :login\_required and I get this error: "undefined method `authenticate\_with\_http\_basic’ for #UsersAddressController:0x2aaaac214b30 " Now I have been reading as much as I can online but I am not getting anywhere. I think it may just be that I do not fully understand the concept behind how this plugin works. When I was on the rails irc the other day I was told that my situation was hard to analyze because I did not provide any code. What code exactly? I assume that I am able to place in before\_filter :login\_required on any given controller and that would be the end of it minus creating accounts. Am I mis-understood? Also, when I use this line: script/generate authenticated user sessions --include-activation –stateful I am not able to pull up any basic login/out pages as the templates are missing? I would not use basic templates in production to begin with but my point here is I cannot seem to get the basics working and I think I am just missing the point of this plugin. Does anyone have any insight? ---
**Author:** ![capslock118](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@capslock118](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capslock118)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-authenticated-error/131468/2 "2008-03-10T13:38:23Z")
On Mar 10, 12:28 pm, Joel S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > "undefined method `authenticate\_with\_http\_basic’ for > #UsersAddressController:0x2aaaac214b30 > " What version of Rails are you using? authenticate\_with\_http\_basic was introduced in Rails 2.0. Regards Robin ---
**Author:** ![capslock118](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@capslock118](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capslock118)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-authenticated-error/131468/3 "2008-03-12T13:30:38Z")
On Mar 10, 4:38 pm, Joel S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Is there a way that my rails app, which was installed in 1.4, is still > using 1.4 even though gem list says 2.0.2? You can force rails to use a specific version by editing your environment.rb file. You need to set the RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION to 2.0.2. It is probably at 1.4 if your app was created before the update. Robin ---
**Author:** ![capslock118](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@capslock118](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/capslock118)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-authenticated-error/131468/4 "2008-03-10T17:38:08Z")
Robin F. wrote: > On Mar 10, 12:28�pm, Joel S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > wrote: > > > "undefined method `authenticate\_with\_http\_basic’ for > > #UsersAddressController:0x2aaaac214b30 > > " > > What version of Rails are you using? authenticate\_with\_http\_basic was > introduced in Rails 2.0. > > Regards > > Robin Thats a good question. Using gem list I see 2.0.2. Now there is a caveate with that I think… First, I installed via Ubuntu’s synaptic rails 1.4 prior to 2.0.2. I was trying to use acts\_as\_authenticated then and I quickly learned through google that I needed \> 2.0. So I used gem install to get 2.0. - I believe synaptic package manager still believes I have 1.4 installed (maybe I should remove that?) Once that was installed I shut-down/start-up the rails server. I also noticed that in my environment.rb that RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION was still 1.4. So I simply changed that number to reflect what was in gem list. Is that an issue? I was thinking I might want to backup my controllers/views/models/migrates/etc and just rebuild the application? I do not see why it should come to that though so I am holding back from that option. Is there a way that my rails app, which was installed in 1.4, is still using 1.4 even though gem list says 2.0.2?