Small problem with developing a plugin

Rails
1

Hi all

I’m developing a plugin that looks like this so far:

module ActsAsAuthenticated
def self.included(base)
base.extend(ClassMethods)
end

module ClassMethods
  def acts_as_authenticated(options = {})
    options = {
      :uid => :name
    }.merge(options)

    include(InstanceMethods)

    def authenticate(name, password)
      user = send("find_by_#{options[:uid]}".to_sym, name)
      if user
        if user.hashed_password != encrypted_password(password,

user.password_salt)
user = nil
end
end
user
end
end
end
end

The important line is

user = send(“find_by_#{options[:uid]}”.to_sym, name)

because I want the user of my plugin to be able to pass an optional
option[:uid] to the plugin. But sadly, I get the following error:

undefined local variable or method `options’ for Member:Class

Why that? How can I achieve what I want?

Thanks
Josh

2

On Nov 26, 2007 4:55 PM, Joshua M.
[email protected]
wrote:

module ClassMethods
if user.hashed_password != encrypted_password(password,
The important line is
Thanks
Josh

First off, did you do any research into the name and funcionality?
Because
this already exists:
http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/acts_as_authenticated/

As for your code, you’ve got nested methods going on here, unless
there’s
code you kept out of the picture. Otherwise, options is a local variable
to
the class method. You need to set a class method (preferrably with
write_inheritable_attribute) to use it later.

Jason