Rails not saving model field - ruby-on-rails

Question

I was wondering why my rails is not saving my encrypted_password field.
Here is my UserController
class UserController < ApplicationController
require 'bcrypt'
before_filter :save_login_state, :only => [:new, :create]
def new
new_user = User.new(user_params)
new_user.numRatings = 0
if new_user.save
flash[:notice] = "You signed up successfully"
flash[:color]= "valid"
else
flash[:notice] = "Form is invalid"
flash[:color]= "invalid"
end
redirect_to(:controller => 'sessions', :action => 'login')
end
def create
end
def update
end
def view
end
private
def user_params
params.require(:user).permit(:name, :email, :password, :password_confirmation)
end
end
Here is my User model
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
require 'BCrypt'
attr_accessor :password, :encrypted_password
EMAIL_REGEX = /\A[A-Z0-9._%+-]+#[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\z/i
validates :email, :presence => true, :uniqueness => true, :format => EMAIL_REGEX
validates :name, :presence => true
validates :password, :confirmation => true, :presence => true, :on => :create
before_save :encrypt_password
after_save :clear_password
def encrypt_password
if password.present?
self.salt = BCrypt::Engine.generate_salt
self.encrypted_password = BCrypt::Engine.hash_secret(password, salt)
end
end
def clear_password
self.password = nil
end
def self.authenticate(username_or_email="", login_password="")
if EMAIL_REGEX.match(username_or_email)
user = User.find_by_email(username_or_email)
end
if user && user.match_password(login_password)
return user
else
return false
end
end
def match_password(login_password="")
encrypted_password == BCrypt::Engine.hash_secret(login_password, salt)
end
end
In addition, I use this function to save it
def login_attempt
authorized_user = User.authenticate(params["user"]["email"],params["user"]["password"])
if authorized_user
session[:user_id] = authorized_user.id
flash[:notice] = "Wow Welcome again, you logged in as #{authorized_user.username}"
redirect_to(:action => 'home')
else
flash[:notice] = "Invalid Username or Password"
flash[:color]= "invalid"
render "login"
end
end
One thing that I suspect that I created my first migration
class CreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
def change
create_table :users do |t|
t.string :email
t.string :password
t.string :name
t.float :rating
t.integer :numRatings
t.timestamps
end
end
end
However, I changed the :password field to :encrypted_password and it's reflected in a the table. I've been stuck on this for 2 hours. I was wondering if anything sticks out. Thanks.
The logs say that the data is being injected minus the encrypted password
INSERT INTO "users" ("created_at", "email", "name", "numRatings", "salt", "updated_at") VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) [["created_at", "2014-08-05 06:22:41.335373"], ["email", "w#w.com"], ["name", "w"], ["numRatings", 0], ["salt", "$2a$10$pagmnNzT4FWEBmaPmiLX1u"], ["updated_at", "2014-08-05 06:22:41.335373"]]

Answer 1

Your attr_accessor :encrypted_password sticks out - this is overwriting the Rails-generated attribute getter/setter with one that will simply set an instance variable called #encrypted_password in your model instance.

Answer 2

You mentioned you changed the migration :password field to :encrypted_password field, but are you sure you reinitialized the models? I.e. correctly migrated the changes? Finally, if you did change the migration, there is no need for an attr_accessor of encrypted_password. Having both of them may cause shadowing and be the problem.