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Ruby Build a Rails API Authorization and Authentication Basic Authentication: Part 3

Posted by Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points

It seems like those other users are still showing

In this video, Naomi Freeman says something like "we can see that the lists belonging to other users are no longer showing. Great!" around the 2:45 mark.

However, it looks like there are a bunch of things marked with various user_ids, both in the video and in my own app. See?

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Did I miss something? Am I looking at the wrong user_id somehow?

Thanks!

2 Answers

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

You seem to be right when it comes to the video. But when I tested my own implementation, it properly shows only the lists of the user I entered with the curl command, nothing more. I'm not sure if my code differs much from what Naomi did...

Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points

Hmm. Yeah, I got some "user_id: null" responses as well, but I also know that I have been typing a bunch of the curl requests incorrectly. :thumbsup: :grinning:

Alex Romanillos
Alex Romanillos
16,144 Points
Alex Romanillos
Alex Romanillos
16,144 Points

The index method in the todo_list_controller.rb was left unedited: 

class Api::TodoListsController < Api::ApiController

    def index
        Rails.logger.info "Current user: #{current_user.inspect}"
        render json: TodoList.all
    end

By replacing the query form TodoList.all to current_user.todo_lists.all the issue gets fixed.

class Api::TodoListsController < Api::ApiController

    def index
        Rails.logger.info "Current user: #{current_user.inspect}"
        render json: current_user.todo_lists.all
    end