Problem with undefined variable current_user

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Hi everyone,

I'm working through the tutorial at the following link and

attempting to customise/adapt the lessons for my own slightly different application.

Link:

[      Ruby

on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example | Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book and screencasts | by Michael Hartl](Ruby on Rails Tutorial | Learn Enough to Be Dangerous)

I'm currently trying to work through chapter 10, but having some

problems with the variable ‘current_user’ not being properly defined in the ‘signed_in’ method. Everything looks fine to me, but as I am obviously missing something I’d appreciate it if someone with more experience at debugging could point me in the right direction.

I can sign in with my test users and the exception only occures when

attempting to edit a profile.

Controller and model are attached.

Cheers,

Jen.

Error:

NameError in UsersController#edit

undefined local variable or method `current_user' for #<UsersController:0x9ffad80>

Rails.root: /home/resource_portal/website

Application Trace > Framework Trace > Full Trace

app/helpers/sessions_helper.rb:17:in `signed_in?'
app/controllers/users_controller.rb:91:in `authenticate'
rake-0.8.7/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:436:in `_run__1056153724__process_action__372525482__callbacks'
rake-0.8.7/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:409:in `_run_process_action_callbacks'
rake-0.8.7/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:93:in `run_callbacks'
rake-0.8.7/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/abstract_controller/callbacks.rb:17:in `process_action'
rake-0.8.7/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_controller/metal/instrumentation.rb:30:in `block in process_action'
rake-0.8.7/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:52:in `block in instrument'
rake-0.8.7/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/notifications/instrumenter.rb:21:in `instrument'
rake-0.8.7/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:52:in `instrument'
rake-0.8.7/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_controller/metal/instrumentation.rb:29:in `process_action'
rake-0.8.7/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_controller/metal/rescue.rb:17:in `process_action'
...

users_controller.rb (2.08 KB)

sessions_helper.rb (1.04 KB)

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The error message is pretty clear - You haven’t defined a current_user method in your helper.

Check out Listing 9.16 in that tutorial you posted. That’s where it describes the current_user method you need to add.

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/sign-in-sign-out#code:current_user_working

3

Are you including SessionsHelper in you ApplicationController ?

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base   protect_from_forgery   include SessionsHelper end

Simon

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Hi, Moved the authenticate method to the helper, after looking at the sample app code from github. This seems to have solved the problem.

Thanks, Jen.