# Newbie: Strange error when playing with the UserEngine **URL:** \ **Category:** Engines\ **Created:** [March 21, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-strange-error-when-playing-with-the-userengine/55484 "2006-03-21T16:17:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jeroen\_van\_Doorn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@Jeroen\_van\_Doorn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeroen_van_Doorn)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-strange-error-when-playing-with-the-userengine/55484/1 "2006-03-21T16:17:34Z")
Hi All, When playing with the user engine, I’ve encountered the following. When I want to “register for an account” everything goes ok… But when I want to activate the account I end in an everlasting loop. I’ve found that the code in the function “add\_user\_role” doesn’t work properly, though when I set :user\_role\_name to another name I do get an error in my development log … Any hints? Kind regards, Jeroen van Doorn ---
**Author:** ![Jeroen\_van\_Doorn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@Jeroen\_van\_Doorn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeroen_van_Doorn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-strange-error-when-playing-with-the-userengine/55484/2 "2006-03-24T10:34:50Z")
Sorry for the late reply, Don’t have any strange chars in my url, I’ve made a new test app and there it works ok … As soon as I’ve found the error (probably my own mistake), I’ll report what is was. Regards, Jeroen ---
**Author:** ![Jeroen\_van\_Doorn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@Jeroen\_van\_Doorn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeroen_van_Doorn)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-strange-error-when-playing-with-the-userengine/55484/3 "2006-03-22T16:31:55Z")
Sorry to sound like I think everyone is running into the same bug, are there by any chance any punctuation characters like hyphens in your application’s root path? For example /usr/local/rails-stuff/appname …? If that’s the case, there’s a one-line fix to a file in the Engines plugin that solves this, and it’s just been fixed in the trunk, but not in any of the release versions yet. Jeroen van Doorn wrote: > Hi All, > > When playing with the user engine, I’ve encountered the following. > > When I want to “register for an account” everything goes ok… > But when I want to activate the account I end in an everlasting loop. > > I’ve found that the code in the function “add\_user\_role” doesn’t work > properly, though > when I set :user\_role\_name to another name I do get an error in my > development log … > > Any hints? > > Kind regards, > Jeroen van Doorn ---
**Author:** ![Jeroen\_van\_Doorn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@Jeroen\_van\_Doorn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeroen_van_Doorn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-strange-error-when-playing-with-the-userengine/55484/4 "2006-03-24T11:37:03Z")
Well … found it, but I’m not proud :S In the user model I added a has\_many relation … This isn’t a problem, only I added it before the includes include LoginEngine::AuthenticatedUser include UserEngine::AuthorizedUser Never gonna make this mistake again… Regards, Jeroen ---
**Author:** ![Jeroen\_van\_Doorn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@Jeroen\_van\_Doorn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeroen_van_Doorn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 11:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-strange-error-when-playing-with-the-userengine/55484/5 "2006-03-24T11:06:23Z")
It’s really strange … The Code for both installations is the same … The Database names (en content for the system roles) are the same They are even running on the same server. Program1 gets in an infinite loop, Program2 doesn’t Shoot me!