Ruby on Rails

Frederick Cheung wrote in post #1059064:
> On May 1, 2:00pm, Daniel Coston <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> Application will not authenticate [sends alert of invalid credentials].
>> Using user credentials created via rake db:seed. How do I get it to
>> authenticate?
>>
>> Agent Model
>> ----------------
>>
>> def Agent.authenticate(name,password)
>> if agent = find_by_name(name)
>> if agent.hash == encrypt_password(password,agent.salt)
>
> Have you tried calling agent.hash ? I'd wager that that methods
> returns something you don't expect, because hash is a method all ruby
> objects have - I suspect that you're calling that method rather than
> the one that would return the value of your hash column. You can get
> at the attribute value via read_attribute, although I'd recommend
> avoiding dangerous names like that.
>
> Fred

Appreciate your insight. Was unaware hash was inherited by all objects.
Will try changing the name.

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