Question

This is my setup:

user.rb

  acts_as_authentic do |c|
    c.logged_in_timeout(1.minutes)
  end

user_session.rb

  def to_key
    new_record? ? nil : [ self.send(self.class.primary_key) ]
  end
  self.logout_on_timeout = true

application_controller.rb

  helper_method :current_user_session, :current_user

  private
    def current_user_session
      logger.debug "ApplicationController::current_user_session"
      return @current_user_session if defined?(@current_user_session)
      @current_user_session = UserSession.find
    end

    def current_user
      logger.debug "ApplicationController::current_user"
      return @current_user if defined?(@current_user)
      @current_user = current_user_session && current_user_session.user
    end

    def require_user
      logger.debug "ApplicationController::require_user"
      unless current_user
        #store_location
        flash[:warning] = "You must be logged in to access this page"
        #redirect_to new_user_session_url
        redirect_to root_url
        return false
      end
    end

    def require_no_user
      logger.debug "ApplicationController::require_no_user"
      if current_user
        #store_location
        flash[:warning] = "You must be logged out to access this page"
        redirect_to account_url
        return false
      end
    end

But when I load my page, I will get the error

undefined method `logged_out?' for #<User:0x00000103ee8348>

I try to read the official GitHub page of Authlogic, but I still don’t know, what I miss… Could anyone give me a tip for fix it?

Many thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I was having the exact same problem, and it boiled down to the fact I didn’t have all of the necessary columns in my User model.

My original User model (from db/schema.rb) was pretty minimalistic:

create_table "users", :force => true do |t|
    t.string   "username"
    t.string   "name"
    t.string   "crypted_password"
    t.string   "password_salt"
    t.string   "persistence_token"
    t.string   "perm",               :default => "employee"
end

However, I added the column t.datetime :last_requested_at to my model, as well as a few others that may or may not be needed. My final User model looks like:

create_table "users", :force => true do |t|
    t.string   "username"
    t.string   "name"
    t.string   "crypted_password"
    t.string   "password_salt"
    t.string   "persistence_token"
    t.string   "perm",               :default => "employee"
    t.datetime "created_at"
    t.datetime "updated_at"
    t.integer  "login_count",        :default => 0,          :null => false
    t.integer  "failed_login_count", :default => 0,          :null => false
    t.datetime "last_request_at"
    t.datetime "current_login_at"
    t.datetime "last_login_at"
    t.string   "current_login_ip"
    t.string   "last_login_ip"
end

After adding in the other columns, I no longer get the undefined method 'logged_out?'... error.

Good luck!

(reference/more info: http://www.michaelhamrah.com/blog/2009/05/authlogic-and-openid-on-rails/ — search in the page for logged_out?, the explanation was about 3/4 of the way down the post.)