Recipe 5 - Authenticate Rest Client

Hi everyone,

I’ve followed along with this recipe and it’s not working for me. I know it is something REALLY simple. I get the following method not found error when attempting to login:

NoMethodError in SessionsController#create
undefined method `authenticate’ for #

Was I suppose to set up the “authenticate” method prior to starting this recipe?

Hi Phattymatty,

Yup, u need to have ur User.authenticate. Here’s a very simple one:

def self.authenticate( name, password ) User.find_by_name_and_password( name, password )
end

Just what it needed. Thanks