# Restful\_authentication: undefined method

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restful-authentication-undefined-method/191433>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 12, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restful-authentication-undefined-method/191433 "2010-07-12T17:35:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![noloman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a9a28c/32.png) [@noloman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noloman)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restful-authentication-undefined-method/191433/1 "2010-07-12T17:35:29Z")

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Hey everybody,

I’m very new with Ruby On Rails and I’m trying to set up a website with  
a simple login/register system using the restful\_authentication plugin.

After having carefully followed the instructions, when trying to  
register a new user, I get the following error:

NoMethodError in Users#new

Showing app/views/users/new.html.erb where line #7 raised:

undefined method `login’ for #\<User id: nil, name: nil, created\_at: nil,  
updated\_at: nil\>

Extracted source (around line #7):

4: \<%= error\_messages\_for :user %\>  
5: \<% form\_for :user, :url =\> users\_path do |f| -%\>  
6:

\<%= label\_tag ‘login’ %\>  
  
7: \<%= f.text\_field :login %\>

  
8:  
9: 

\<%= label\_tag ‘email’ %\>  
  
10: \<%= f.text\_field :email %\>

I’m not really sure of what I should do, because there is no login  
method in the user controller…

Thanks a lot in advance!

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**Author:** ![noloman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a9a28c/32.png) [@noloman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noloman)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restful-authentication-undefined-method/191433/2 "2010-07-12T18:31:06Z")

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Manu meneillos wrote:

> Hey everybody,
> 
> I’m very new with Ruby On Rails and I’m trying to set up a website with  
> a simple login/register system using the restful\_authentication plugin.

Don’t waste your time. restful\_authentication is garbage: it relies on  
unmaintainable generated code and is hard to use. Use Authlogic or  
something of similar quality.

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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**Author:** ![noloman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a9a28c/32.png) [@noloman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noloman)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restful-authentication-undefined-method/191433/3 "2010-07-12T20:26:41Z")

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Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

> Don’t waste your time. restful\_authentication is garbage: it relies on  
> unmaintainable generated code and is hard to use. Use Authlogic or  
> something of similar quality.
> 
> ## Best,
> 
> Marnen Laibow-Koser  
> [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

Alright, I’ll try it. Thanks a lot!