Rails Cannot See User_Notifier's methods!!!

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Hey there, I'm attempting to set up a User_notifier that sends the user an email with a reset password (a la RESTful Authentication's plugin--which I'm using). I get the following error any time I call UserNotifier.deliver_<method_name>. I.e. in this case, when calling UserNotifier.deliver_reset_password(user). Here's the stack trace from console:

UserNotifier.deliver_reset_password(User.find(1))

NoMethodError: undefined method `reset_password' for #<UserNotifier: 0xb6e12178>   from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.2.2/lib/action_mailer/ base.rb:462:in `__send__'   from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.2.2/lib/action_mailer/ base.rb:462:in `create!'   from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.2.2/lib/action_mailer/ base.rb:455:in `initialize'   from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.2.2/lib/action_mailer/ base.rb:392:in `new'   from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.2.2/lib/action_mailer/ base.rb:392:in `method_missing'   from (irb):2

This is driving me crazy, because I can certainly see a method within user_notifier.rb called 'reset_password.' If anybody has any thoughts at all, they're EXTREMELY appreciated! been bangin my head against the wall for quite a while.

Thanks for lookin, Jared

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Hi Jared,

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This is driving me crazy, because I can certainly see a method within user_notifier.rb called 'reset_password.' If anybody has any thoughts at all, they're EXTREMELY appreciated! been bangin my head against the wall for quite a while.

Did you create a class method rather than an instance method ?

Fred