# LoginEngine dying on Rails 1.1? **URL:** \ **Category:** Engines\ **Created:** [March 29, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-dying-on-rails-1-1/89706 "2006-03-29T03:01:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-dying-on-rails-1-1/89706/1 "2006-03-29T03:01:01Z")
Hi all. I just finished upgrading a small Rails toy application to Rails 1.1 and it seems that LoginEngine no longer works. I have upgraded the Engines plugin using an svn checkout of the rel\_1.1.0, and while the Engines plugin seems to work fine (as does the UserEngine), the LoginEngine simply doesn’t do much of anything any more. For instance, if I try to login, I’m simply redirected back to the login page, even though the username and password is correct. There are no flashes or anything indicating a bad login. Upon a successful login, none of the user information that would normally be stored in the session ends up getting stored. Other forms, such as the forgotten password form, are similarly broken. I tried messing around with the user\_controller.rb, but any changes I make are just ignored. In fact, purposefully inserting syntax errors into the file or renaming it completely doesn’t even seem to have any effect on the situation. I have no idea why the controller is just being ignored outright. I can make changes to the views and they appear fine, but it’s like the controller isn’t even there. Anybody seeing anything remotely similar? If it helps, I’m using Ruby 1.8.4, Rails 1.1, Apache 1.3.34 and FastCGI 2.4.0. I’m experiencing the problem both with FastCGI enabled and plain ol’ non-Fast-CGI. Engines, UserEngine and LoginEngine are all up-to-date checkouts. Cheers. J ---
**Author:** ![J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-dying-on-rails-1-1/89706/2 "2006-03-30T06:12:46Z")
J Smith wrote: > page, even though the username and password is correct. There are no > I have no idea why the controller is just being ignored outright. I can > Cheers. > > J Well, I was able to get around this problem, but it seems that what I was experiencing was something similar to ticket #53. I ended up copying the contents of user\_controller.rb from UserEngine and pasted it into the user\_controller.rb script for LoginEngine and moved the UserEngine file out of the way. Now everything seems to work. Is this a legitimate bug, or am I doing something ridiculously wrong? I have checked and re-checked my configuration and removed and reinstalled the Engines, UserEngine and LoginEngine several times, but this was the only way I could get everything to work properly again. There seems to be something screwy with how Engines is doing the overriding of the controllers, as if methods were being ignored or something. Am I alone in seeing this? I guess that would indicate that I’m the problem here and not Engines, but I’ve exhausted my debugging ability to come up with this workaround… J ---
**Author:** ![J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 6:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-dying-on-rails-1-1/89706/3 "2006-04-03T06:34:26Z")
I am having the same problem here. I tried to do what you said but no luck; I still can’t create users. Could you please tell me how you managed to merge the two files together? ---
**Author:** ![J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-dying-on-rails-1-1/89706/4 "2006-04-03T07:11:54Z")
I think I got the user creation to work by commenting out the User.transaction(@user) do After reading about transactions on [api.rubyonrails.com](http://api.rubyonrails.com) it didn’t make much sense why one would have a transaction there because there is only transaction. I did the same for the sign up which is in the user\_controller.rb in login\_engine and it worked too… Oh, I wish that I could have found that out earlier… ---
**Author:** ![J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-dying-on-rails-1-1/89706/5 "2006-04-21T00:14:26Z")
J Smith wrote: > > page, even though the username and password is correct. There are no > > I have no idea why the controller is just being ignored outright. > > I ended up copying the contents of user\_controller.rb from UserEngine > and > pasted it into the user\_controller.rb script for LoginEngine and moved > the > UserEngine file out of the way. Now everything seems to work. Thanks! I’ve had the same problem and I’ve been trying to work it out for hours, lol. The fix you gave there sorted all of the issues I was having, cheers. To possibly shed some further light on the subject I managed to track it down to running under FastCGI, if I ran exactly the same code under SCGI everything worked perfectly. Kev ---
**Author:** ![J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-dying-on-rails-1-1/89706/6 "2006-05-06T10:28:54Z")
> Thanks! I’ve had the same problem and I’ve been trying to work it out > for hours, lol. The fix you gave there sorted all of the issues I was > having, cheers. > > To possibly shed some further light on the subject I managed to track it > down to running under FastCGI, if I ran exactly the same code under SCGI > everything worked perfectly. > > Kev hi, Kev I got the same problem…when I input something and submit,nothing happened,no flash notice,no error showin up I googled this page,and tried his way(the\_copy\_past\_thing)…but still can’t work would you please tell me how to copy "the contents of user\_controller.rb from UserEngine and pasted it into the user\_controller.rb script for LoginEngine " thank in advance batz 06/05 ---
**Author:** ![J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Smith)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-dying-on-rails-1-1/89706/7 "2006-08-08T04:06:06Z")
I was also bitten by this, during a site migration from a host that used lighttpd to one that used apache+fastcgi. I can confirm that switching to slowcgi fixes it (at least temporarily). ---
**Author:** ![J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 5:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-dying-on-rails-1-1/89706/8 "2006-05-15T05:51:16Z")
Roland M. wrote: > I think I got the user creation to work by commenting out the > > User.transaction(@user) do > > After reading about transactions on [api.rubyonrails.com](http://api.rubyonrails.com) it didn’t make > much sense why one would have a transaction there because there is only > transaction. I did the same for the sign up which is in the > user\_controller.rb in login\_engine and it worked too… > > Oh, I wish that I could have found that out earlier… I took your suggestion and it worked too. My problem is it worked for couple days and then failed without any error. What i also isolated out is that the transaction does not work between rails 1.1 and the login engine. Our other stuff that uses transactions and works fine. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@J\_Smith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Smith)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loginengine-dying-on-rails-1-1/89706/9 "2006-08-29T14:33:11Z")
Roland M. wrote: > I think I got the user creation to work by commenting out the > > User.transaction(@user) do > > After reading about transactions on [api.rubyonrails.com](http://api.rubyonrails.com) it didn’t make > much sense why one would have a transaction there because there is only > transaction. I did the same for the sign up which is in the > user\_controller.rb in login\_engine and it worked too… > > Oh, I wish that I could have found that out earlier… I can confirm that on a Win2K box with mongrel running as a Win32 service, I was having problems with any code whatsoever on Rails 1.1.6 and the latest release of user\_engine touching transactions. I had to remove transaction code from login\_engine/app/controllers/user\_controller.rb as well, and I saw the effects on ALL actions involving transaction - deleting users, editing roles, changing password, etc. All fixed since removing the transaction code.