LoginEngine problems

I’m trying to get a simple authentication system going for a small rails
app.
After much research, it looks like LoginEngine should do exactly what I
want.

Now, the documentation is somewhat confusing to me when looked at in the
light
of reality. There are some places that say you have to install the
“engines”
plugin. But, I cannot find such a beast.

So, I installed the login_engine plugin. When I try to configure it as
it
says, I get: “./script/…/config/…/config/environment.rb:56: undefined
method `config’ for LoginEngine:Module (NoMethodError)”

And sure enough, if I look through the LoginEngine code, I can find no
trace
of a config method. So I must be missing something.

If I need the engines plugin, where can I find a released one? If it’s
something else, what is it?

Thanks.
David

P.S.

I’m using Rails HEAD - one week because of habtm bug that has been
fixed, if
that’s relevant.

The specific issue you are having is because the ‘config’ method is
provided by the engines plugin - you need to install it. Normally
that installation would be the typical one for any plugin, using the
‘script/plugin’ command.

However, because you’re tracking the bleeding edge, you need to do a
bit of extra work:
http://rails-engines.org/wiki/pages/Using+Engines+with+Edge+Rails

In a nutshell, you can’t use the ‘official’ release – it works with
the ‘official’ Rails release, and things have changed a great deal on
the Edge. You need to do this to get the bleeding edge engines plugin:

cd vendor/plugins
svn co http://opensvn.csie.org/rails_engines/engines/trunk engines

Also make sure that you follow the instructions in the README (as
goes for anything really) - especially because you are using Edge
Rails.

  • james

On 2/26/06, David C. [email protected] wrote:

I’m using Rails HEAD - one week because of habtm bug that has been fixed, if
that’s relevant.


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Well, all that make sense. However, I continue to have problems. To
keep
thing simple, I’ve rolled back my vendor/rails to stable, and then
applied a
patch for the one bug that was causing me grief (multiple HABTMs in one
model).

Then I installed engines and login_engine plugins in the normal way.

I followed the README to the best of my ability, and when I run any rake
task
(like rake import_login_engine_schema, or rake engine_info) I get this:
undefined method config' for Rails::Initializer::LoginEngine:Module ./config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:183:inload_environment’
./config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:155:in
load_environment' ./config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel.rb:27:insilence_warnings’
./config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:152:in
load_environment' ./config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:81:inprocess’
./config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:42:in run' ./config/../config/environment.rb:10 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:inrequire’
./config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/tasks/misc.rake:9
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:202:in execute' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:202:inexecute’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:180:in invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:179:ininvoke’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:827:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:179:ininvoke’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:1454:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:1454:inrun’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/bin/rake:7
/usr/bin/rake:18

Any pointers?
Thanks.

Two things:

  1. the config method not being found indicates to me that the engines
    plugin itself isn’t being loaded

  2. the fact that the error occurs for the module
    Rails::Initializer::LoginEngine makes it sound like you’ve put the
    LoginEngine config inside the initializer loop.

Try moving that chunk of code, along with the Engines.start call, to
the very bottom of your environment.rb, and in particular outside of
any blocks.

  • james

On 2/28/06, David C. [email protected] wrote:

./config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:183:in load_environment' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:202:in execute’
Any pointers?

http://rails-engines.org/wiki/pages/Using+Engines+with+Edge+Rails
Rails.

“engines” plugin. But, I cannot find such a beast.

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On Wednesday 01 March 2006 15:12, James A. wrote:

Two things:

  1. the config method not being found indicates to me that the engines
    plugin itself isn’t being loaded

I’m reasonably sure it is (I added a $stderr.puts), but I might have put
it in
the wrong place.

  1. the fact that the error occurs for the module
    Rails::Initializer::LoginEngine makes it sound like you’ve put the
    LoginEngine config inside the initializer loop.

I don’t have my code handy to verify, but I think it is outside the
loop. I
also tried saying “::LoginEngine”, and while the module name changed in
the
error, it did not go away.

Try moving that chunk of code, along with the Engines.start call, to
the very bottom of your environment.rb, and in particular outside of
any blocks.

I’ll double check all of that stuff tonight though…

If you want to add configuration in the environment/* files, you
unfortunately need to use the CONFIG hash directly, i.e.

module LoginEngine
CONFIG ||= {}
CONFIG[:salt] = ‘whatever’
end

This is because these files are evaluated before any plugins are
loaded, so the ‘config’ method isn’t available yet. They may also be
evaluated within the context of Rails::Initializer, so you might need
to address the top-level module ::LoginEngine.

  • james

On 3/1/06, David C. [email protected] wrote:

plugin itself isn’t being loaded

this: undefined method config' for ./config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:42:in run’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:1454:in `run’

that installation would be the typical one for any plugin, using the
cd vendor/plugins

rails app. After much research, it looks like LoginEngine should do
And sure enough, if I look through the LoginEngine code, I can find
I’m using Rails HEAD - one week because of habtm bug that has been
~

  • J *
    ~

I figured it out. I also added some configuration to the
environments/development.rb file, which is in fact the source of the
problem.

There are a couple of things that I’d like to vary based on the
environment?
Short of another if statement, any suggestions?

On Wednesday 01 March 2006 03:12 pm, James A. wrote:

  1. the LoginEngines Mailing list page has been spammed, making it hard
    to sign
    up (or even know who to tell).

Lastly (hah!), a few questions.

  1. are the created_at and updated_at really necessary? Will it work fine
    without them?

  2. I’m going to migrate existing user data to the LoginEngine. I
    presume I
    should set the salt column to match my configured salt. What I’d like
    to do,
    is force users to reset their passwords, by having a ‘token’ mailed to
    them.
    Any tips?

  3. Is role used in any particular manner?

David