Ruby on Rails

On 6 January 2011 09:48, Ashleigh <labaumgardner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was just working my way pretty carefully through the getting started
> tutorial and I've hit an unusual snag that I can't make any sense of.
> After adding the authenticate before filter to my posts controller I
> was presented with this error message:
>
> Routing Error
>
> undefined method `Â Â before_filter' for PostsController:Class
>
> If I delete the line that contains the before_filter then everything
> works as expected, minus authentication of course. The authenticate
> method is this:
>
>  private
>
>  def authenticate
>    authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |user_name, password|
>      user_name == 'admin' && password == 'password'
>    end
>  end
>
> And the before_filter line is this:
>
>   before_filter :authenticate, :except => [:index, :show]

Perhaps you have some non-printing characters at the start of the
line. What happens if you type it in again? Also check the line
before.

If that does not fix it show us the stack dump and the complete error
message. Also the code around the error.

Colin

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