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dinosaurW
dinosaurW

Reputation: 113

has_secure_password not Encrypting password_digest Ruby on Rails

I have commented everything out of my model except:

has_secure_password

and with my migration I have added:

t.string "password_digest"

to my users database.

When I create a user in the rails console and try to save it however, the password doesn't encrypt. It appears in my database as the password that I entered. Could someone please tell me how to get has_secure_password to encrypt my password? Am I missing something simple? I have the bcrypt gem installed.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1564

Answers (4)

Tom LaChance
Tom LaChance

Reputation: 1

t.string :password_digest perhaps rollback your migration and place this in your migration file. I hope this helps.

Upvotes: 0

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 2993

In case anyone else gets here with a different problem. We were trying to use this with ember (à la http://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/jwt-authentication-with-rails-ember-part-i-rails-knock/ ) and our problem was (pretty much the same as the answerers indicated above) that we added passwordDigest to our ember data model (so we were essentially assigning to password_digest rather than password, but ember data was doing it on our behalf so we didn't realize it at first from the answers above).

Upvotes: 0

doz87
doz87

Reputation: 601

Yes. For others that come by this post and aren't quite sure what you mean.

You don't assign a password to password_digest

You assign it to password

When you add has_secure_password to your model, it automatically adds a virtual attribute called password. When you assign a value to password, it will encrypt and save into password_digest.

Upvotes: 9

dinosaurW
dinosaurW

Reputation: 113

ANSWERED: I needed to use the virtual password attribute not the password_digest attribute

Upvotes: 0

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