I am trying to work through the rails tutorial, and ran into a problem. In the process of debugging it I ran into this strange behavior, which I think is related to my problem.
>rails console
DL is deprecated, please use Fiddle
Loading development environment (Rails 3.2.16)
irb(main):001:0> app.cookies['foo'] = 'bar'
=> "bar"
irb(main):002:0> app.cookies['remember_token'] = 'foobar'
=> "foobar"
irb(main):003:0> app.cookies['foo']
=> "bar"
irb(main):004:0> app.cookies['remember_token']
=> "foobar"
irb(main):005:0> app.put app.root_url
User Load (1.0ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."remember_token" IS NULL LIMIT 1
CACHE (0.0ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."remember_token" IS NULL LIMIT 1
=> 200
irb(main):006:0> app.cookies['foo']
=> "bar"
irb(main):007:0> app.cookies['remember_token']
=> ""
Notice how cookies['foo'] remains set to 'bar' after a put, but cookies['remember_token'] gets set to ""
Can anyone explain what might be going on here? I do have a column "remember_token" in the model, but I don't see how that should come into play.
Here is the model:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :email, :name, :password, :password_confirmation
has_secure_password
validates :name, presence: true,
length: { maximum: 50 }
VALID_EMAIL_REGEX = /\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i
validates :email, presence: true,
format: { with: VALID_EMAIL_REGEX },
uniqueness: { case_sensitive: false }
validates :password, presence: true,
length: { minimum: 6 }
validates :password_confirmation, presence: true
before_save { email.downcase! }
before_save :create_remember_token
private
def create_remember_token
puts "in create remember_token" #added for debug
self.remember_token = SecureRandom.urlsafe_base64
puts remember_token #added for debug
end
end
and here is the database :
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20140111165943) do
create_table "users", :force => true do |t|
t.string "name"
t.string "email"
t.datetime "created_at", :null => false
t.datetime "updated_at", :null => false
t.string "password_digest"
t.string "remember_token"
end
add_index "users", ["email"], :name => "index_users_on_email", :unique => true
add_index "users", ["remember_token"], :name => "index_users_on_remember_token"
end
My original question was related to test failures , and can be found here
Update: Found source of this strange behavior
As I began to get together the code to show the full controller (as requested in the comment), it became clear that this was going to be the source of my problem.
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
protect_from_forgery
include SessionsHelper
# Force signout to prevent CSRF attacks
def handle_unverified_request
sign_out
super
end
end
and here is the sign_out method (in my sessions_helper)
def sign_out
puts "in sign out"
cookies.delete :remember_token
self.current_user = nil
end
I added a puts in the sign_out method and saw that it was called as soon as a did a put (but not a get). Now I have to back to the tutorial and see what I must have done wrong.
