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    <p>I am very new to programming, and so far I've had no big issues with Rails Tutorial. </p> <p>But when I hit 10.1, I started getting the same errors over and over again and I'm not sure why. I have looked up similar issues at the RailsTutorial Get Satisfaction group <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/railstutorial/topics/listing_10_15_causes_user_validation_failure_running_rspec" rel="nofollow">here</a>. </p> <p>Thanks in advance for your help.</p> <p><strong>Failures:</strong></p> <pre><code>1) UsersController GET 'edit should be successful Failure/Error: get :edit, :id =&gt; @other_user undefined local variable or method `authenticate' for #&lt;UsersController:0x270dc60&gt; # ./spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb:115:in `block (3 levels) in &lt;top (required)&gt;' 2) UsersController GET 'edit should have right title Failure/Error: get :edit, :id =&gt; @other_user undefined local variable or method `authenticate' for #&lt;UsersController:0x1ff7aac&gt; # ./spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb:120:in `block (3 levels) in &lt;top (required)&gt;' </code></pre> <p><strong>Here's the spec documentation:</strong></p> <pre><code>require 'spec_helper' describe UsersController do render_views describe "GET 'show'" do before(:each) do @user = Factory(:user) end it "should be successful" do get :show, :id =&gt; @user.id response.should be_success end it "should find the right user" do get :show, :id =&gt; @user assigns(:user).should == @user end it "should have the right title, the user's name" do get :show, :id =&gt; @user response.should have_selector('title', :content =&gt; @user.name) end it "should have the user's name" do #in the body of the profile get :show, :id =&gt; @user response.should have_selector('h1', :content =&gt; @user.name) end it "should have a profile image" do get :show, :id =&gt; @user response.should have_selector('h1&gt;img', :class =&gt; "gravatar") end it "should have the right URL" do get :show, :id =&gt; @user response.should have_selector('td&gt;a', :content =&gt; user_path(@user), :href =&gt; user_path(@user)) end end describe "GET 'new'" do it "should be successful" do get :new response.should be_success end it "should have the right title" do get :new response.should have_selector("title", :content =&gt; "Sign up") end end describe "POST 'create'" do before(:each) do @attr = {:name =&gt; "", :email =&gt; "", :password =&gt; "", :password_confirmation =&gt; ""} end it "should not create a user" do lambda do post :create, :user =&gt; @attr end.should_not change(User, :count) end it "should have the right title" do post :create, :user =&gt; @attr response.should have_selector('title', :content=&gt; "Sign up") end it "should render the 'new' page" do post :create, :user =&gt; @attr response.should render_template('new') end describe "success" do before(:each) do @attr={ :name =&gt; "A Chowdhury", :email =&gt; "achowdhury@gmail.com", :password =&gt; "cqsoqaqa", :password_confirmation =&gt; "cqsoqaqa"} end it "should create a user" do lambda do post :create, :user =&gt; @attr end.should change(User, :count).by(1) end it "should sign the user in" do post :create, :user =&gt; @attr controller.should be_signed_in end it "should redirect to the user 'show' page" do post :create, :user =&gt; @attr response.should redirect_to(user_path(assigns(:user))) end it "should have a welcome message" do post :create, :user =&gt; @attr flash[:success].should =~ /welcome to the sample app/i end end end describe "GET 'edit" do before(:each) do @other_user = Factory(:user) test_sign_in(@other_user) end it "should be successful" do get :edit, :id =&gt; @other_user response.should be_success end it "should have right title" do get :edit, :id =&gt; @other_user response.should have_selector('title', :content =&gt; "Edit user") end end end </code></pre> <p><strong>And the Users Controller:</strong> </p> <pre><code>class UsersController &lt; ApplicationController before_filter :authenticate, :only =&gt; [:edit, :update] def show @user = User.find(params[:id]) @title = @user.name end def new @user= User.new @title= "Sign up" end def create @user = User.new(params[:user]) if @user.save sign_in @user redirect_to @user flash[:success] = "Welcome to the Sample App!" else @title = "Sign up" render 'new' end end def edit @user = "Edit user" end end Factory.define :user do |user| user.name "Joynul Choudhury" user.email "jcny816@example.com" user.password "foobar" user.password_confirmation "foobar" end </code></pre> <p><strong>UPDATE: authenticate method in User.rb</strong></p> <pre><code>class User &lt; ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessor :password attr_accessible :name, :email, :password, :password_confirmation email_regex = /\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-zA-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 } validates :password, :presence =&gt; true, :confirmation =&gt; true, :length =&gt; { :within =&gt; 6..40 } before_save :encrypt_password # Return true if the user's password matches the submitted password. def has_password?(submitted_password) # Compare encrypted_password with the encrypted version of # submitted_password. encrypted_password==encrypt(submitted_password) end def User.authenticate(email, submitted_password) user= find_by_email(email) return nil if user.nil? return user if user.has_password?(submitted_password) end def User.authenticate_with_salt(id, cookie_salt) user = find_by_id(id) return nil if user.nil? return user if user.salt == cookie_salt 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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    1. CO"Dumb" question, but do you have an `authenticate` method somewhere that you haven't shared with us?
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