I have a user Model with a class method that I am using to do some
authentication
basically something like this
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessor :password
attr_accessible :first_name, :last_name,
:email, :birth_date, :sex,
:password, :password_confirmation
email_regex = /\A[\w+-.]+@[a-z\d-.]+.[a-z]+\z/i
validates :first_name, :presence => true,
:length => { :maximum => 50 }
validates :last_name, :presence => true,
:length => {:maximum => 50 }
validates :email, :presence => true,
:format => { :with => email_regex },
:uniqueness => { :case_sensitive =>
false }
validates :password, :presence => true,
:length => {:within => 6…20},
:confirmation => true
validates :sex, :presence => true
validates :birth_date, :presence => true
def self.authenticate(email, submitted_password)
user = find_by_email(email)
puts user
return nil if user.nil?
return user if user.has_password?(submitted_password)
end
end
as you can see I left out some code but the problem I am having is
where you can see that I have a “puts user”. when running this method
from the Console like so
User.authenticate(“[email protected]”, “foobar”) the local user object in
the authenticate method returns nil from the puts
now in the console if I do this
User.find_by_email(“[email protected]”) the consol returns me a valid user
object from the database
what am I missing here ?
thanks in advance for any insight you can offer.