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Ruby

Posted by Lyric Abbott
Lyric Abbott
35,595 Points

HELP

Type the method that we would call on the user object to check the submitted password:

user = User.find_by(email: params[:email]) if user && user._________________

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/creating-the-sessions-controller

i dont understand

Isabelle Oneal
Isabelle Oneal
14,267 Points

user = User.find_by(email: params[:email]) if user && user.authenticate(params[:password]) try this

3 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

This question only wants you to write this method, without passing anything inside, but normally you pass in a password to compare with the actual user's password. If it passes, it returns the user, if not, it returns False.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel/SecurePassword/ClassMethods.html#method-i-has_secure_password

Sebastian Velandia
Sebastian Velandia
24,676 Points
Sebastian Velandia
Sebastian Velandia
24,676 Points

just type 'authenticate' without the quotes, at the beginning I tought that you had to pass the password param, but this time you just have to call the method authenticate. this does not have too much sense since without a password is verydifficult to authenticate an user, the treehouse teacher should edit the answer and accept the password param because when you make the quiz for the first time you get confused...

Daniel Reedy
Daniel Reedy
25,284 Points
Daniel Reedy
Daniel Reedy
25,284 Points

Everything related to Rails authentication is located in the ActiveModel::SecurePassword module. Take a look at the documentation and pay close attention to the authenticate(unencrypted_password) method.