Did you follow the README, particularly the lines talking about adding certain include lines to ApplicationHelper?
- james On 7/28/06, gwen campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is likely a painfully newbie-ish question, so please bare with me :) > > I'm muddling through my first rails application, and decided to use the > Login Engine to handle user authentication. Now, according to the > README, I should be able to "use current_user method provided by > UserHelper", like so: > > Welcome <%= current_user.name %> > > I've put that line in my application.rhtml, and return the following error: > > undefined local variable or method `current_user' for > #<#<Class:0xb7875280>:0xb7875258> > > which seems to suggest I haven't done something correctly. > > Now, I can find where current_user is set in > vendor/plugins/login_engine/lib/login_engine/authenticated_system.rb > > I'm still trying to work out what goes where in rails, but I figured in > order for the method to be available globally, I needed to move that > definition into app/controllers/application.rb. Still received the same > error, however. > > I then tried adding the definition for current_user to > app/helpers/application_helper.rb, and that sort of did the trick. > "Welcome <%= current_user.name %>" now translates properly in my layout. > > My real goal, however, is to get usermonitor to work > (http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Howto+Add+created_by+and+updated_by/versions/7), > and current_user still does not appear to be accessible by this module. > When I attempt to edit an object in one of my models, I get the error: > > undefined method `current_user' for User:Class > > So I gather app/helpers/application_helper.rb is likewise not the > correct place for this. > > I then try putting it in config/environment.rb (which seems even less > likely, though at this point I do have to concede 'what do I know?'), > which also appears to work as far as my application.rhtml is concerned. > But when I try to edit an object, I now get: > > private method `current_user' called for User:Class > > This feels a bit like progress, but I'm stumped regarding how to make > this method public (and whether or not that's really what I want to do). > If I understand things correctly, methods *are* public by default, and > only become private when "private" is placed before their definition? > Which is fine, except that there is no instance of "private" in my > config/environment.rb > > At this point, I'm stumbling blind, and don't know if I'm even remotely > headed in the right direction. If somebody could give me a nudge in that > right direction, I would be so very grateful! > > Thanks in advance, > > Gwen > _______________________________________________ > engine-users mailing list > engine-users@lists.rails-engines.org > http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org > -- * J * ~ _______________________________________________ engine-users mailing list engine-users@lists.rails-engines.org http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org
