authlogic email as username

Question

How do i override/set authlogic to use the email field instead of the username field for both signup and authentication, having a username + an email is occasionally too intense for some some registration scenarios

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '10 at 00:10

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If you simply remove the login column and add an email column, authlogic will do the rest.

See this example readme for all the optional/required DB columns.

answered Mar 18 '10 at 00:10

bensie

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magic!. Also i found using this also worked: acts_as_authentic do |c| c.login_field = :email end – ADAM Mar 18 '10 at 00:14
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I needed to login with email, yet retail the username. So I prefer ADAM's comment answer. – Justin Tanner Jun 09 '11 at 16:52

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '10 at 21:39

better answer try this... well, update authlogic gem if needed!

user_session.rb

class UserSession < Authlogic::Session::Base
  find_by_login_method :find_by_email #for example or you can make what ever method see exapmle 2
end

--- example 2

user_session.rb

class UserSession < Authlogic::Session::Base
  find_by_login_method :find_by_anything
end

user.rb

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_authentic

  def self.find_by_anything(login)
    find_by_login(login) || find_by_email(login) || find_by_id(login)
  end
end

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 09 '11 at 16:43

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As Adam's comment contains a good answer to this question. Add this to your user model:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_authentic do |c| c.login_field = :email end
end

answered Jun 09 '11 at 16:43

Justin Tanner

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