Question

I am using authlogic for authentication in my rails app. I need to be able to call a method for the current_user when they sign in but it’s returning nil.

In my user_sessions_controller.rb

def create
  @user_session = UserSession.new(params[:user_session])

  if @user_session.save
    current_user.increment_login_count_for_current_memberships!
    flash[:notice] = 'Sign in successful.'
    redirect_to root_path
  else
    render action: "new"
  end
end

And it’s returning…

Failure/Error: click_button "Sign in"
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `increment_login_count_for_current_memberships!' for nil:NilClass

I’ve seen a similar problem here Not able to set a current_user using Authlogic on Rails 3.0.1 where the answer was to disable basic_auth, but I am using basic_auth for my admin side of the app so I cannot simply disable it.

• Why can’t I call the current_user here?

• If I can’t call current_user here, is there a way to set it?

Answer 1

I still don’t know why I cannot call current_user or @current_user here. But I found two ways to call the current_user here in the controller code…

UserSession.find.user.increment_login_count_for_current_memberships!

and

@user_session.user.increment_login_count_for_current_memberships!

If anyone wants to shed some light on why I can’t call current_user here, I’ll happily award you the bounty 🙂