Hey Hilary, Technically it is getting passed in because self.id is going to look for the id of the current user object and then look up that ID in the Users database.
Self in ruby will almost always refer to the object that is receiving the message from a method call. Hopefully that makes sense? Sent from my iPad On Jun 22, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Hillary Hueter <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm working through a book on Sinatra/padrino and they're walking through > user registration confirmation with confirmation codes. > > The tutorial uses active_record, but I'm using the sequel orm so I need to > adapt the snippet to sequel syntax to work. I'm pretty comfortable with the > syntax, so that's not the problem. I just can't figure out how the > authenticate method works. > > So the Model Code is > > class User < ActiveRecord::Base > ... > def authenticate(confirmation_code) > return false unless @user = User.find_by_id(self.id) > if @user.confirmation_code == self.confirmation_code > self.confirmation = true > self.save > true > else > false > end > end > ... > end > > > And this is how they call it in the rspec test > > it 'confirmation should be set true after a user is authenticated' do > user_confirmation.save > confirmation_of_saved_user = User.find_by_id(user_confirmation.id) > user_confirmation.confirmation_code = > confirmation_of_saved_user.confirmation_code > > user_confirmation.authenticate(user_confirmation.confirmation_code).should > be_true > user_confirmation.confirmation.should be_true > end > > > What's really confusing me is this line: > > return false unless @user = User.find_by_id(self.id) > > How does the model/method know "self.id" since it's not being passed in? > > Thanks. > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD > Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
