this is the bit of code i'm having a problem with.. the odd thing.. if i remove all the code in the def login, reload the page so the view actually shows up put the code back in the def login and submit the form.. it works just fine... but if i start with the code for the login in the controller then it's broken and starts giving me the errors posted below.
Assuming that you have a single login action that both displays the form and submits it then the problem is that if there are no parameters then params[:user] will be nil and so params[:user][:login] is nonsensical. When you submit the form however the parameters will be there and so there's no problem. One way to deal with this would be to surround the relevant parts with if request.post? ...
Fred
