# ..and UserEngine isn't logging me out! **URL:** \ **Category:** Engines\ **Created:** [March 17, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/and-userengine-isnt-logging-me-out/83159 "2006-03-17T15:05:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hatless](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/848f3c/32.png) [@hatless](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hatless)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/and-userengine-isnt-logging-me-out/83159/1 "2006-03-17T15:05:55Z")
So now here I am thinking I’m getting incrementally closer to having a UserEngine setup that works, copying a controller into my app, putting sitewide authorization in application.rb and assigning privileges on my “public” controller to Guests and most things seemingly work. Then I tried logging out to test one of my privileged non-admin users on a site maintenance page. I accessed /user/logout and the app told me I’m logged out. But when I then went to a protected URI, instead of being redirected to /user/login as I am on my development box (which works absolutely as it should no matter what I throw at it), I am allowed access. Which either means permissions aren’t working in a dangerous way (if the code is broken, failure should result in denial, not access), or I’m not really being logged out despit being presented with HTML that says I have been. What versions of Engines, LoginEngine and UserEngine are considered most likely to work on a Ruby 1.8.2/Rails 1.0.0 box and SwitchTower deployment? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![hatless](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/848f3c/32.png) [@hatless](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hatless)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 9:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/and-userengine-isnt-logging-me-out/83159/2 "2006-03-18T09:03:08Z")
Steve K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > Then I tried logging out to test one of my privileged non-admin users on > a site maintenance page. I accessed /user/logout and the app told me I’m > logged out. But when I then went to a protected URI, instead of being > redirected to /user/login as I am on my development box (which works > absolutely as it should no matter what I throw at it), I am allowed > access. Which either means permissions aren’t working in a dangerous way > (if the code is broken, failure should result in denial, not access), or > I’m not really being logged out despit being presented with HTML that > says I have been. Check the session variable, it should be set to nil, if you log out. If you are using database to store session then check that, the corresponding session entry is removed. Check the permissions\_roles table, and verify that the permissions are correctly set, or not present for the guest user. See if you have before\_filter: authorize\_action enabled, and that it is indeed being called. Also, set up tests which will automatically check whether entry is enabled or disabled for different users. As a developer don’t just go by HTML because it might be rendered by some other bug, and may be misleading. ## Hope this helps. Surendra S. [http://ssinghi.kreeti.com](http://ssinghi.kreeti.com), [http://www.kreeti.com](http://www.kreeti.com) Read my blog at: [http://cuttingtheredtape.blogspot.com/](http://cuttingtheredtape.blogspot.com/) ,---- | Great wits are sure to madness near allied, | And thin partitions do their bounds divide. | | (John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1681) `---- ---
**Author:** ![hatless](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/848f3c/32.png) [@hatless](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hatless)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/and-userengine-isnt-logging-me-out/83159/3 "2006-03-18T18:05:32Z")
Thanks. Good advice. Looks like it turned out to be a bug in the Engines plugin’s handling of path names with hyphens for which a one-line fix was reported a month ago. But since the fix was reported in the old (and still operational) Trac bugbase and not the new Collaboa bugbase it hasn’t found its way into the trunk yet. See my more recent thread if you’re curious. In short, the crucial difference between my dev and prod environments was that the prod environment had my app in a directory path under /usr/local/www/rails-apps/… The hyphen in “rails-apps” was causing the problems, and with the offending regex in Engines fixed, none of the other workarounds I had in place were necessary anymore. Surendra S. wrote: > Steve K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > > > Then I tried logging out to test one of my privileged non-admin users on > > a site maintenance page. I accessed /user/logout and the app told me I’m > > logged out. But when I then went to a protected URI, instead of being > > redirected to /user/login as I am on my development box (which works > > absolutely as it should no matter what I throw at it), I am allowed > > access. Which either means permissions aren’t working in a dangerous way > > (if the code is broken, failure should result in denial, not access), or > > I’m not really being logged out despit being presented with HTML that > > says I have been. > > Check the session variable, it should be set to nil, if you log out. If > you > are using database to store session then check that, the corresponding > session > entry is removed. > > Check the permissions\_roles table, and verify that the permissions are > correctly set, or not present for the guest user. > > See if you have before\_filter: authorize\_action enabled, and that it is > indeed being called. > > Also, set up tests which will automatically check whether entry is > enabled or > disabled for different users. > > As a developer don’t just go by HTML because it might be rendered by > some > other bug, and may be misleading. > > ## Hope this helps. > > Surendra S. > [http://ssinghi.kreeti.com](http://ssinghi.kreeti.com), [http://www.kreeti.com](http://www.kreeti.com) > Read my blog at: [http://cuttingtheredtape.blogspot.com/](http://cuttingtheredtape.blogspot.com/) > ,---- > | Great wits are sure to madness near allied, > | And thin partitions do their bounds divide. > | > | (John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1681) > `----