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    copied!<p>In Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial, <a href="http://ruby.railstutorial.org/book/ruby-on-rails-tutorial#sec%3aimplementing_has_password" rel="nofollow">ch 7.2.3</a>, rspec is returns the following errors:</p> <pre><code>Failures: 1) User has_password? method should be true if the passwords match Failure/Error: @user.has_password?(@attr[:password].should be_true) NoMethodError: undefined method `has_password?' for nil:NilClass # ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:132:in `block (3 levels) in &lt;top (required)&gt;' 2) User has_password? method should be false if the passwords don't match Failure/Error: @user.has_password?("invalid").should be_false NoMethodError: undefined method `has_password?' for nil:NilClass # ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:136:in `block (3 levels) in &lt;top (required)&gt;' Finished in 0.23931 seconds 18 examples, 2 failures Failed examples: rspec ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:131 # User has_password? method should be true if the passwords match rspec ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:135 # User has_password? method should be false if the passwords don't match </code></pre> <p>In the console I'm also getting an undefined local variable error on 'password confirmation'</p> <p>I've thoroughly checked my code and can't find the discrepancy but I'm obviously doing it wrong. </p> <p>here's my users model:</p> <pre><code>require 'digest' class User &lt; ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessor :password attr_accessible :name, :email, :password, :password_confirmation email_regex = /\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i validates :name, :presence =&gt; true, :length =&gt; { :maximum =&gt; 50 } validates :email, :presence =&gt; true, :format =&gt; { :with =&gt; email_regex }, :uniqueness =&gt; { :case_sensitive =&gt; false } # Automatically create the virtual attribute 'password_confirmation'. validates :password, :presence =&gt; true, :confirmation =&gt; true, :length =&gt; { :within =&gt; 6..40 } before_save :encrypt_password def has_password?(submitted_password) self.encrypted_password == encrypt(submitted_password) end private def encrypt_password self.salt = make_salt if new_record? self.encrypted_password = encrypt(password) end def encrypt(string) secure_hash("#{salt}--#{string}") end def make_salt secure_hash("#{Time.now.utc}--#{password}") end def secure_hash(string) Digest::SHA2.hexdigest(string) end end </code></pre>
 

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