Undefined method 'authenticate' for User:Class

Rails
1

I am getting “undefined method ‘authenticate’ for User:Class” even tho I
do have it defined in my User class. I put some puts to see how far the
code in user.rb was being executed when declaring the class and it seems
that it breaks when reaching the acts_as_authorized_user line, however
rails does not spit any error it just doesn’t finish loading the User
class. Here is the code:

puts “*Going to define User”
class User < ActiveRecord::Base

puts “*Going to include”
acts_as_authorized_user
acts_as_authorizable
puts “*Done include”

Virtual attribute for the unencrypted password

attr_accessor :password

validates_presence_of :login, :email
validates_presence_of :password, :if => :password_required?
validates_presence_of :password_confirmation, :if => :password_required?
validates_length_of :password, :within => 4…40, :if =>
:password_required?
validates_confirmation_of :password, :if => :password_required?
validates_length_of :login, :within => 3…40
validates_length_of :email, :within => 3…100
validates_uniqueness_of :login, :email, :case_sensitive => false
before_save :encrypt_password

Authenticates a user by their login name and unencrypted password.

Returns the user or nil.
def self.authenticate(login, password)
u = find_by_login(login) # need to get the salt
u && u.authenticated?(password) ? u : nil
end

Encrypts some data with the salt.

def self.encrypt(password, salt)
Digest::SHA1.hexdigest("–#{salt}–#{password}–")
end

Encrypts the password with the user salt

def encrypt(password)
self.class.encrypt(password, salt)
end

def authenticated?(password)
crypted_password == encrypt(password)
end

def remember_token?
remember_token_expires_at && Time.now.utc < remember_token_expires_at
end

These create and unset the fields required for remembering users

between browser closes
def remember_me
self.remember_token_expires_at = 2.weeks.from_now.utc
self.remember_token = encrypt("#{email}–#{remember_token_expires_at}")
save(false)
end

def forget_me
self.remember_token_expires_at = nil
self.remember_token = nil
save(false)
end

Defining has_role? is optional when you use ‘acts_as_authorized_user’.

You can check roles against hardwired names before passing it off to

default role checking.
def has_role?( role, authorized_object = nil )
return true if self.username.downcase == ‘admin’ and (role ==
‘site_admin’)
#return true if self.username.downcase == ‘nobody’ and role == ‘nobody’

Note that no ‘conquerer’ role is hardwired in, so it must be in role

table & checked through mixin has_role? method.
super
end

protected

before filter

def encrypt_password
return if password.blank?
self.salt = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest("–#{Time.now.to_s}–#{login}–") if
new_record?
self.crypted_password = encrypt(password)
end

def password_required?
crypted_password.blank? || !password.blank?
end
end

puts “*Done defining User”

Any suggestions on what I can do? I am using rails 1.2.3 and rails
1.8.6.

2

Are you including the module that mixes in the functionality for
acts_as_authorized_use?

3

yes, I tried doing
include Authorization::ObjectRolesTable::UserExtensions::ClassMethods
include Authorization::ObjectRolesTable::ModelExtensions::ClassMethods

on the User class but that didn’t work either, it gives me the same
error. Using the puts I can see that rails stops loading the class at
those lines, so I am starting to suspect that the Plugin classes are not
being loaded by rails or it can’t find them. However, I put some puts on
the load_plugins method of rails and it does have the correct paths for
my plugins. I am absolutely confused at this point.

4

Does this plugin have docs? What plugin is it? You’re absolutely
right…
it’s not loading the plugins

5

I am not using the authorization plugin anymore, but the models are
still not being loaded properly. For example I have a DemeritSlip class
in the models folder with a custom attribute named std_name that looks
like this:

def std_name=(std_formal_and_id)
set_std_name(std_formal_and_id)
end
def set_std_name(std_formal_and_id)
self.student_id = std_formal_and_id.to_s.split(“ID:”)[1].to_i
end
def std_name
if (self.student == nil)
return “”
else
return self.student.formal_name_id
end
end

Rails doesn’t find this method somehow.

6

The authorization plugin, I am also using the acts_as_authenticated
plugin and the Dr. Nick Magic models. I tried deactivating the Magic
Models plugin but it made no difference.