Hi! I am using authlogic and I have a User model (with act_as_authentic) without the "login" field, since I use "email" as the user name. As it says in the authlogic documentatation, that should be the way it works when there is no login field.
When I create new users manually via the User -> new form, everythings works fine. But: Now I'd like to add user accounts as a side effect when anonymous users fill in a form (actually it's the "new" form for an entity called SearchSubscription). Now, in my SearchSubscription class, I have this "before_create :assign_user" callback: def assign_user if self.user_id.nil? # find user with the given email address. If not present, create new user. user = User.find(:first, :conditions => {:email => self.email}) if !user.nil? self.user_id = user.id else # User not found, so create one randompassword = Base64.encode64(Digest::SHA1.digest("#{rand(1<<64)}/#{Time.now.to_f}/#{Process.pid}/#{login}"))[0..7] user = User.create(:email => self.email, :password => randompassword, :location => self.location) if user.id self.user_id = user.id else flash[:warning] = "Could not create user account" end end end end This works well for email addresses that have a user entry. But whenever I try to create a new SearchSubscription with an unknown email address, I get the following error: NameError (undefined local variable or method `login' for #<SearchSubscription:0x104099750>): app/models/search_subscription.rb:26:in `assign_user' app/controllers/search_subscriptions_controller.rb:21:in `create' I have the impression that somewhere, the "User" class requires the login. But I don't want to maintain a login field, since I want to use the email address for that. Any ideas? Thanks! Marian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.