# Restful auth problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 17, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restful-auth-problem/155887 "2008-12-17T22:11:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bouldr-matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@bouldr-matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bouldr-matt)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restful-auth-problem/155887/1 "2008-12-17T22:11:15Z")
Hi folks, I have been working on a website and I used restful auth as a starting point for the authentication. Suddenly (I don’t think I broke it but I don’t know) it has started throwing me a weird problem. I have a view that checks to see if the user is logged in (logged\_in?) and if yes, check the user’s roles (current\_user.has\_role?) and display a menu accordingly. The login check seems to return true for non-authenticated users and thus falls over when it tries to get the roles (no method: nil.has\_role?) I have definitely not fiddled with the restful auth libs, like authenticated\_system.rb. I have gone back and checked the svn logs to see what else I might have broken, but I can’t find a trace. I don’t know where to start tracking this problem down, I looked at the code for logged\_in? and it’s so simple I don’t see how it could have got broken. Any ideas welcomed as I’m pretty much stuck Thanks Matt ---
**Author:** ![bouldr-matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@bouldr-matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bouldr-matt)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restful-auth-problem/155887/2 "2008-12-18T00:09:44Z")
Solved…embarrasingly. I was looking at the wrong line…doh The actual problem was I had used “has\_role?” later on in the layout but hadn’t wrapped it with “if logged\_in?”. Lets just keep quiet about this one 😛