From: Michael Malone <michael.malone@...>
Date: 2009-02-23T05:27:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Hashed_Pasword?


>> Here is the entire section of code :
>> def self.authenticate(login, password)
>>     user = find_by_login(login)
>>     return user if user && user.authenticated?(password)
>>   end
>>
>>   def authenticated?(password)
>>     hashed_password == encrypt(password)
>>   end
>>
>>   protected
>>    def encrypt_new_password
>>      return if password.blank?
>>      self.hashed_password = encrypt(password)
>>    end
>>
>>    def password_required?
>>      hashed_password.blank? || !password.blank?
>>    end
>>
>>    def encrypt(string)
>>      Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(string)
>>    end
>>     
>
>   
Um, shouldn't you be storing the result of the hash into hashed_password?
Also, if this is part of a User class (as suggested by the output 
earlier) then you probably want to use @ -scoped variables, not 
method-local.
def Klass
    some_variable = value
end

is NOT the same as:
def Klass
    def initialize
       @some_variable = value
    end
end

That seems the most likely problem to me.  If this doesn't solve your 
problem, could you post the point at which you initialise/declare your 
variables?

Cheers,
Michael


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