How do I login a user with devise?

Question

I have my rails application and I am running into a major issue with devise. I have a controller:

class Users::SessionsController < Devise::SessionsController
  prepend_before_filter :require_no_authentication, :only => [ :new, :create ]
  include Devise::Controllers::InternalHelpers

def new
    clean_up_passwords(build_resource)

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { render :layout => "sessions" }
      format.mobile
    end
  end


    # POST /resource/sign_in
    def create
      resource = User.find_by_email(params[:user][:email])  
      resource = warden.authenticate!(:scope => resource_name, :recall => "#{controller_path}#new")
      set_flash_message :notice, :signed_in
      sign_in_and_redirect(resource_name, resource)
    end

end

The problem is it never logs the user in, it always stops at this line

resource = warden.authenticate!(:scope => resource_name, :recall => "#{controller_path}#new")

I even put tons of loggers in the actual gem files to see if I could see anything off but nothing and I really have no idea how to fix this. If I comment this line out then the user gets logged in but fails if the email is not in the db and works for any password (which is definitely not the right solution)

How do I fix this?

UPDATE

this works but seems very hackish

# POST /resource/sign_in
def create
  resource = User.find_by_email(params[:user][:email])

  redirect_to(new_user_session_path, :notice => 'Invalid Email Address or Password. Password is case sensitive.') and return if resource.encrypted_password.blank?      
  bcrypt   = BCrypt::Password.new(resource.encrypted_password)
  password = BCrypt::Engine.hash_secret("#{params[:user][:password]}#{resource.class.pepper}", bcrypt.salt)
  valid = Devise.secure_compare(password, resource.encrypted_password)
 # resource = warden.authenticate!(:scope => resource_name, :recall => "#{controller_path}#new")
  if valid
    set_flash_message :notice, :signed_in
    sign_in_and_redirect(resource_name, resource)
  else
    redirect_to(new_user_session_path, :notice => 'Invalid Email Address or Password. Password is case sensitive.') and return    
  end

end

Solution 1

If you want to sign in a user, use the sign_in helper inside your controller's action:

sign_in(:user, user)

Solution 2

  resource = warden.authenticate!(:scope => resource_name)
   sign_in(resource_name, resource)

Comments

[Matt Elhotiby]

this logs them in regardless even if the password is wrong or not

[owl]

Check user.valid_password?(params[:password]) first, then.

[ishwr]

I tried exactly like this but got wrong number of arguments (2 for 0). any idea?

[owl]

@takodil Maybe that method is being defined by something else. Open a new SO question and include your code. Along with that information, show us the output of method(:sign_in).source_location in this new question as well.

[ishwr]

@RyanBigg Thank you for replying. I made a new SO question. stackoverflow.com/questions/19172935/… Can you tell me where should I put method(:sign_in).source_location ? thanks

[Caleb]

@Trace A valid use case for signing the user in without validating the password is during a customized registration process, for example.

[DaveMongoose]

What should each of these variables contain, and how do you pass in the username and password?