# Walking through the Authlogic, BUT

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/walking-through-the-authlogic-but/191795>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 19, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/walking-through-the-authlogic-but/191795 "2010-07-19T00:04:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/walking-through-the-authlogic-but/191795/1 "2010-07-19T00:04:59Z")

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I’m walking through the Authlogic Railscast at:

> **[\#160 Authlogic - RailsCasts](http://railscasts.com/episodes/160-authlogic)**
>
> Short Ruby on Rails screencasts containing tips, tricks and tutorials. Great for both novice and experienced web developers.

First, I went to work with scaffold instead of nifty\_scaffold

I just have two questions regarding the tutorial:

1- What does root\_url refer to in the tutorial. I’m actually new to  
Rails. So, what is the value I should assign for root\_url?

2- When I try to run the application at the end of the tutorial, I get  
the following: [http://pastie.org/1049745](http://pastie.org/1049745)

What should I do to get everything well and running?

Thanks a lot for your support.

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**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/walking-through-the-authlogic-but/191795/2 "2010-07-19T03:14:51Z")

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1. If you are new to Rails, stay away from plugins untill you work  
through a  
couple of projects. Work through the  
[rails.info](http://guides.rails.info/getting_started.html)
2. Do a project wide search for current\_user method or variable. Do you  
see  
it defined anywhere? You have a reference to it but it is not available  
to  
the Rails app at runtime.

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Abder-Rahman A.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote:

> 2- When I try to run the application at the end of the tutorial, I get  
> “Ruby on Rails: Talk” group.  
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–  
Cheers,  
Bala  
RoR Developer Now Available for Hire

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**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 10:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/walking-through-the-authlogic-but/191795/3 "2010-07-19T10:35:22Z")

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Thanks.