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pwz2000
pwz2000

Reputation: 1395

app not recogonizing user as admin

I have created user roles, however my app is not picking up that my account is a admin. It shows the role as admin but then admin is also nil.

From rails console:

2.0.0-p0 :001 > user = User.find(13)
  User Load (17.4ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` = 13 LIMIT 1
 => #<User id: 13, admin: nil, role: "admin", roles_mask: nil> 
2.0.0-p0 :002 > user.roles
 => [] 
2.0.0-p0 :003 > user.role?(:admin)
 => false

If it's understanding the users role is admin, how come it is not accepting it as admin and giving the account the proper permissions? I need this fixed as I am trying to allow only admins to modify all profiles, and then specifying regular users to only be able to modify and access their own profiles.

user.rb: 

   class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_secure_password
  attr_accessible :password_confirmation, :about_me, :feet, :inches, :password, :birthday, :career, :children, :education, :email, :ethnicity, :gender, :height, :name, :password_digest, :politics, :religion, :sexuality, :user_drink, :user_smoke, :username, :zip_code
  validates_uniqueness_of :email
  validates_presence_of :password, :on => :create
  before_create { generate_token(:auth_token) }

  def send_password_reset
    generate_token(:password_reset_token)
    self.password_reset_sent_at = Time.zone.now
    save!
    UserMailer.password_reset(self).deliver
  end

  def generate_token(column)
    begin
      self[column] = SecureRandom.urlsafe_base64
    end while User.exists?(column => self[column])
  end
end

Upvotes: 0

Views: 69

Answers (1)

gabrielhilal
gabrielhilal

Reputation: 10769

As I said in my comment, 

user.role
=> admin

So, you can add to your application_controller something like:

def admin
  unless current_user.role == 'admin'
    flash[:error] = "Authorisation is required to access this content."
    redirect_to current_user
  end
end

In this way, you can block users that are not admin to access some action in a controller:

before_filter :admin, :only => [:destroy]

It is just one example to give you some direction, and I am assuming you have current_user helper.

I hope it helps...

Upvotes: 1

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