# Help!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/125569>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 10, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/125569 "2008-01-10T09:01:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dev_ror)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/125569/1 "2008-01-10T09:01:47Z")

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hi  
am a new ror user  
need some help for validation errors…  
this is the error i see…

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NoMethodError in Login#add\_user  
Showing app/views/login/add\_user.rhtml where line #14 raised:

undefined method `password’ for #User:0x46d6a4c

Extracted source (around line #14):

11:

  
12: 

13: Password:  
14: \<%= form.password\_field :password, :size =\> 40 %\>  
15:

  
16: 

17: Confirm:

‘’’’’’’

Please help asap…  
am tryn to validate users using password and a salt value.

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**Author:** ![dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dev_ror)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 9:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/125569/2 "2008-01-10T09:05:17Z")

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u need add a custom attribute to your user model:  
class User \< ActiveRecord  
attr\_accessor :password

#other code  
end  
2008/1/10, dev\_ror [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

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**Author:** ![dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dev_ror)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 10:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/125569/3 "2008-01-10T10:06:19Z")

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thnx  
will let u kno if it works…

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**Author:** ![dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dev_ror)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/125569/4 "2008-01-10T13:09:53Z")

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thnx it really helpd…