CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Heber
Heber

Reputation: 1

Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl - chapter 9 - Ruby 2.3

I'm following the Michael Hartl tutorial and I got stuck in chapter 9.

I need this function to work:

def signed_in? !current_user end

but this function always return false even when I'm logged. I'm sorry for this simple question, but I'm a begginer and also spend a long time trying figure it out. I'm using ruby 1.8.7 and rails 2.3.8

thanks in advanced!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 793

Answers (3)

Jorge Zapata
Jorge Zapata

Reputation: 45

You have to add a .nil? to current_user like this:

def signed_in?
    !current_user.nil?
end

Upvotes: 1

Austin
Austin

Reputation: 3646

I had a similar issue and decided to work backwards.

1) def signed_in? !current_user.nil? end. So I looked for the declaration & definition of current_user associated with a sign-in

2) Here: def sign_in(user) cookies.permanent.signed[:remember_token] = [user.id, user.salt] self.current_user = user end. For me, token was misspelled and that fixed it.

Upvotes: 0

Aaron Hinni
Aaron Hinni

Reputation: 14716

I suspect the code should read

def signed_in?
  current_user
end

Putting a ! in front of the call to current_user can be read as "return true if it is NOT the current_user".

Your code inside of SessionsHelper has a typo. The :remember_token cookie is not getting saved off in the sign_in method. It should read:

def sign_in(user)
  user.remember_me!
  cookies[:remember_token] = { :value => user.remember_token,
                               :expires => 20.years.from_now.utc }
  self.current_user = user
end

Not :remember_toker.

Upvotes: 1

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