Rails Tutorial 3 : Can't get app to work after section 9.3.3

I've been faithfully been following along with Rails Tutorial 3 and been loving it but am totally stuck with where I've gone wrong after section 9.3.3. Signin Success -> Current user.

I run the rspec tests rspec/spec but have one failure in my sessions_helper.

For some reason the controller.current_user doesn't == @user and I can't for the life of me figure out where I went wrong or why this doesn't work. I understand where things got to for it to fail but can't work out why.

What's more frustrating to me as I'm starting out with rails is I don't know where to even start trying to debug this or what the debugging process is.

I would be eternally grateful if anyone wanted to take on the challenge of forking this from my github [https://github.com/markstewie/railstut_sampleapp][1] and trying to work out the problem. I would be even more grateful if any开发者_Python百科one could explain the process you would go through to debug a problem like this... I'm seriously stumped.

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Sorry guys, I've just found the problem!!! At last...

in session_helper I had.

  def remember_token
     cookies.signed(:remember_token) || [nil,nil]

rather than

  def remember_token
     cookies.signed[:remember_token] || [nil,nil]

This has been by far the hardest section to understand and I still don't fully but at least it's working now.

Thanks for your time! Mark.

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Just been struggling with the same section, here's what I found:

Make sure that in sessions_helper.rb you have both the current_user=(user) method from listing 9.15 and the improved current_user method from listing 9.16

and

I had to modify the signed_in? method in session_helper.rb like this:

  def signed_in?  
    !self.current_user.nil?  
  end  

There is actually a remark about changing current_user to self.current_user in footnote 9.6, though that seems to be related to some other section.

HTH

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Cloned your rep, run bundle install, migrated the database und run rake rspec. All your tests pass. Can you show your output?

Edit: This was the output

77:test2 markus$ rake spec
(in /Users/markus/Dropbox/Rails/test2)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby -S bundle exec rspec ./spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb ./spec/models/user_spec.rb ./spec/requests/layout_links_spec.rb ./spec/requests/users_spec.rb
No DRb server is running. Running in local process instead ...
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