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Ruby

Were Teoh
Were Teoh
184 Points
Posted by Were Teoh
Were Teoh
184 Points

NameError (uninitialized constant User::Authenticate):

I received this error NameError (uninitialized constant User::Authenticate), can teach me how to fix it?

ApiController:

module Api class ApiController < ApplicationController skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token protect_from_forgery with: :null_session before_filter :authenticate def authenticate authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |email, password| Rails.logger.info "API Authentication:#{email} #{password}" user = User.find_by(email: email) if(user && user.authenticate(password)) Rails.logger.info "Logging in #{user.inspect}" true else Rails.logger.warn "Invalid credentials" false end end end end end

Api Model:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base end

Error detail:

Started GET "/api/todo_lists/1/" for ::1 at 2016-05-08 16:46:14 +0800 Processing by Api::TodoListsController#show as JSON Parameters: {"id"=>"1", "todo_list"=>{}} API Authentication:test.com test1231 User Load (0.1ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."email" = ? LIMIT 1 [["email", "test.com"]] Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 4ms (ActiveRecord: 0.1ms)

NameError (uninitialized constant User::Authenticate): app/controllers/api/api_controller.rb:17:in block in authenticate' app/controllers/api/api_controller.rb:14:inauthenticate'

Geoffrey Emerson
Geoffrey Emerson
18,726 Points

Hi Were. Can you correct the formatting of the code on your question? Just put three backticks before and after each code block.

For example:

```
my code
```