Login authenticate?

Rails
1

Hello there,

I’m trying to do the login section for my small web application, but it
doesn’t seem to work like I want.

Here is the Controller:

if request.post?
@user = User.authenticate(params[:user][:email],
params[:user][:password])
if @user
redirect_to :action => ‘my_account’
end
end

This is how the model authenticate look like.

def self.authenticate(email, password)
@user = User.find( :first,
:conditions => [“email = ? and password = ?”, email,
password],
:limit => 1);
return false if @user.nil?
return true if @user
end

But whenever I try to login I get a error

undefined method `email’ for false:FalseClass

I don’t know what this one means? could anyone help me and Thanks for
Your help.

2

are you seeing this error on the ‘login page’ or the my ‘account page’

my guess is that since you are returning @user as true/false, your
authenticate is not working correctly, and is returning false, so the
login form gets redisplayed, which is expecting @user to be a valid
User object so it can populate the forms.

I could be more certain if i was able to see your entire controller
method (login?) and your login view.