# User registration with email confirmation **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 29, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-registration-with-email-confirmation/136227 "2008-04-29T23:27:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joel)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-registration-with-email-confirmation/136227/1 "2008-04-29T23:27:26Z")
Hello people, i’m trying to implement a user registration system with email confirmation using the tutorial from [technologyvoodoo.com](http://technologyvoodoo.com) but it seems the methods used to access text fields aren’t working. Perhaps these methods are depreciated; being a newbie to rails, i’m having much difficulty confirming this. Can anyone tell me more about this or suggest a tutorial on user registration with email confirmation on rails. Regards, Joel ---
**Author:** ![joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-registration-with-email-confirmation/136227/2 "2008-04-30T00:00:53Z")
Hello, thank you for your reply. In fact I was using this type of text field tag as below and it seemed the model couldn’t find the value of the password for example, while trying to hash it. I got ’ cannot convert nil to string ’ error. \<%= text\_field\_tag 'login','',:style=\>'border-width:1px;border-style:solid;' %\> Ill try to use the sale tags as in the tutorial and let you know. Can the problem come from the tag I'm using ? Regards, Joel ---
**Author:** ![joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joel)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-registration-with-email-confirmation/136227/3 "2008-04-29T23:42:54Z")
if you mean this line: \<%= text\_field “user”, “username”, “maxlength” =\> 20, “size” =\> 20 %\> then that’s perfectly ok. i had only a short glance over the stuff, but it seems good enough and should run. maybe you give us a more detailed description of what you mean with “aren’t working”… give you warnings or error messages? (should if it where deprecated) does not display anything? does not return values? ---
**Author:** ![joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-registration-with-email-confirmation/136227/4 "2008-04-30T18:28:41Z")
Hey Joel, Why don’t you try restful\_authentication? It already has what you’re looking for: - ## [http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2006/8/1/restful-authentication-plugin](http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2006/8/1/restful-authentication-plugin) [http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/restful\_authentication/](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/restful_authentication/) - Wonderful screencasts . [#67 restful\_authentication - RailsCasts](http://railscasts.com/episodes/67) . [http://www.rubyplus.org/episodes/20-Extended-RESTful-Authentication-Rails-2-App.html](http://www.rubyplus.org/episodes/20-Extended-RESTful-Authentication-Rails-2-App.html) Cheers, Sazima ---
**Author:** ![joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joel)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-registration-with-email-confirmation/136227/5 "2008-05-01T02:23:49Z")
> Why don’t you try restful\_authentication? It already has what you’re > looking for: > > -[http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2006/8/1/restful-authentication-plugin](http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2006/8/1/restful-authentication-plugin) > -[http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/restful\_authentication/](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/restful_authentication/) > > - Wonderful screencasts > .[#67 restful\_authentication - RailsCasts](http://railscasts.com/episodes/67) > .[http://www.rubyplus.org/episodes/20-Extended-RESTful-Authentication-R](http://www.rubyplus.org/episodes/20-Extended-RESTful-Authentication-R)… And the greatest tutorial ever : [http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=14216&p=1](http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=14216&p=1) It’s great because it goes over all the points in the authentication and customize them, adding a role/permission system along the path. It’s very extensive and complete. Cheers, Laurent. ---
**Author:** ![joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-registration-with-email-confirmation/136227/6 "2008-04-30T00:10:20Z")
\<%= text\_field\_tag ‘login’,’’,:style=\>‘border-width:1px;border-style:solid;’ %\> that’s the most basic form of textfield. the difference to that in the tutorial is, that you don’t get a params[:user][:login] like with the text\_field but a params[:login] you would have to correct the controller code to use it that way you can use in your applications log folder the development.log to see, what params are returned.