Question

I am a beginning developer, and I was able to successfully use this tutorial (I’m in Rails 3): http://www.binarylogic.com/2008/11/16/tutorial-reset-passwords-with-authlogic/ to allow for users to reset their passwords, however I also have a customer model that I need to do this for, and I’m running into issues (listed below code). I think the error is my routing, but I’m not sure how to fix it.

routes.rb

resources :password_resets do
  get 'edit_customer'
  post 'edit_customer'
end

password_resets_controller.rb

class PasswordResetsController < ApplicationController
before_filter :load_user_using_perishable_token, :only => [:edit, :update]
before_filter :load_customer_using_perishable_token, :only => [:edit_customer, :update_customer]
before_filter :require_no_user, :require_no_customer

def new
render
end

def create
@user = User.find_by_email(params[:email])
@customer = Customer.find_by_email(params[:email])
if @user
  @user.deliver_password_reset_instructions!
  flash[:notice] = "Instructions to reset your password have been emailed to you. " +
    "Please check your email."
  redirect_to new_user_session_path
elsif
  if @customer
  @customer.deliver_customer_password_reset_instructions!
  flash[:notice] = "Instructions to reset your password have been emailed to you. " +
    "Please check your email."
  redirect_to new_customer_session_path
  end
else
  flash[:notice] = "No account was found with that email address"
  render :action => :new
end
end

def edit
render
end

def edit_customer
#redirect_to edit_customer_password_resets_path
end

def update
@user.password = params[:user][:password]
@user.password_confirmation = params[:user][:password_confirmation]
if @user.save
  flash[:notice] = "Password successfully updated"
  redirect_to new_user_session_path
else
  render :action => :edit
end
end

def update_customer
@customer.password = params[:customer][:password]
@customer.password_confirmation = params[:customer][:password_confirmation]
if @customer.save
  flash[:notice] = "Password successfully updated"
  redirect_to new_customer_session_path
else
  render :action => :edit
end
end

private
def load_user_using_perishable_token
  @user = User.find_using_perishable_token(params[:id])
  unless @user
    flash[:notice] = "We're sorry, but we could not locate your account." +
      "If you are having issues try copying and pasting the URL " +
      "from your email into your browser or restarting the " +
      "reset password process."
    redirect_to new_user_session_path
  end
end

def load_customer_using_perishable_token
  @customer = Customer.find_using_perishable_token(params[:id])
  unless @customer
    flash[:notice] = "We're sorry, but we could not locate your account." +
      "If you are having issues try copying and pasting the URL " +
      "from your email into your browser or restarting the " +
      "reset password process."
    #redirect_to new_customer_session_path
  end
end
end

MODELS
user.rb model

def deliver_password_reset_instructions!
reset_perishable_token!
UserMailer.password_reset_instructions(self).deliver
end

customer.rb model

def deliver_customer_password_reset_instructions!
 reset_perishable_token!
 UserMailer.customer_password_reset_instructions(self).deliver
end

VIEWS
password_resets/new

<% form_tag password_resets_path do %>
<p>Email:</p>
<%= text_field_tag "email" %><br />
<br />
<%= submit_tag "Reset my password" %>
<% end %>

password_resets/edit

<% form_for @user, :url => password_reset_path, :method => :put do |f| %>
<%= f.label :password %><br />
<%= f.password_field :password %>
<%= f.label :password_confirmation %>
<%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %>
<%= f.submit "Change my password and log me in"%>
<% end %>

password_resets/edit_customer

<% form_for @customer, :url => password_reset_path, :method => :put do |f| %>
<%= f.label :password %><br />
<%= f.password_field :password %>
<%= f.label :password_confirmation %>
<%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %>
<%= f.submit "Change my password and log me in" %>
<% end %>

It works perfectly for the code that does not have “customer” appended to it. The token generates, and I can get the email to send with the same format for the url: /password_resets//edit_customer

However, it receives an error when I try to pull up the url. With the code above, I receive this error: “No route matches {:action=>”show”, :controller=>”password_resets”}” – I can also see that it interprets the :id to be the id of the controller (which is different than how the user one works – it correctly interprets the id as the token.

I have experimented a lot:

• change :id in controller for edit_customer in load_customer_using_perishable_token to perishable_token, customer.perishable_token, @customer.perishable_token)
• tried to append these to “get ‘edit_customer'” using the path helper (=> “cust_pass”) – :path, :path_name, :as so i could change the url to cust_pass_path
• i even tried to add this to the routes just to see if it would work
  match ‘/password_resets/:id/edit_customer’ => ‘password_resets#edit_customer’

So I stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I was able to fix this by updating the url in edit_customer.rb

from

:url => password_reset_path

to

:url => {:action=>"update_customer", :controller=>"password_resets"}

I also had to update my route.rb

from

resources :password_resets do
 get 'edit_customer'
 post 'edit_customer'
end

to

resources :password_resets, :except => [:index, :destroy, :show] do
  get 'edit_customer'
  put 'update_customer'
end