Problem in the rubyonrails getting started tutorial

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Hello,

I was just working my way pretty carefully through the getting started tutorial and I've hit an unusual snag that I can't make any sense of. After adding the authenticate before filter to my posts controller I was presented with this error message:

Routing Error

undefined method `Â Â before_filter' for PostsController:Class

If I delete the line that contains the before_filter then everything works as expected, minus authentication of course. The authenticate method is this:

  private

  def authenticate     authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |user_name, password|       user_name == 'admin' && password == 'password'     end   end

And the before_filter line is this:

before_filter :authenticate, :except => [:index, :show]

If anybody can tell me what is going on I would be very appreciative. The getting started tutorial that I am referring to is here:

Thanks, ashleigh

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Perhaps you have some non-printing characters at the start of the line. What happens if you type it in again? Also check the line before.

If that does not fix it show us the stack dump and the complete error message. Also the code around the error.

Colin

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As a test, I would place the before_filter in the Application Controller to ensure it's working. If you don't receive an error, then do as Colin suggested above.

If you do, post the error as instructed above.

In the test within the application controller just put:

before_filter :authenticate

.. and comment out the other before_filters in your other controllers.