Always fails in production about switch_user HOT 4 CLOSED

do you mean it works fine in development environment, but not production?
it's wierd, did you put the gem "switch_user" in development group in
Gemfile?

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:20 AM, aunderwo <
[email protected]>wrote:

I have changed my config in an initializer to be

config.controller_guard == lambda { |current_user, request|
Rails.env.development? || (Rails.env.production? && current_user &&
current_user.admin?) }

However in production switch_user always fails. Even if I change the lambda
to always return true it still fails. It seems that the config is not being
read. However I know the switch_user initializer is working since changing
config.provider to :authlogic causes an error since I am using devise.

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No the gem is available in all environments and I know the gem is active in production since the switch_user URL works but gives permission denied whether I'm admin or not. This is still the case even if the controller_guard lambda is just 'true'.

Can't quite figure how to debug this. I'm using Ruby 1.9.2 in case this makes a difference.

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OK tracked down the problem. The initializer config does get picked up.
The problem was copying the default config from the ReadMe has this line

config.view_guard == lambda { |current_user, request| Rails.env.development? }

note the double =. I copied and pasted this and caused errors using this. My switch_user.rb initializer is as below and works fine. Please note for the redirect to match the default config it should be

 config.redirect_path = lambda { |request, params| request.env["HTTP_REFERER"] ? :back : root_path } 

not I think

config.redirect_path = lambda { |request, params| '/' }

As can be found in the readme

SwitchUser.setup do |config|
  # provider may be :devise or :authlogic
  config.provider = :devise

  # available_users is a hash, 
  # key is the model name of user (:user, :admin, or any name you use), 
  # value is a block that return the users that can be switched.
  config.available_users = { :user => lambda { User.all } }

  # available_users_identifiers is a hash,
  # keys in this hash should match a key in the available_users hash
  # value is the name of the identifying column to find by,
  # defaults to id
  # this hash is to allow you to specify a different column to
  # expose for instance a username on a User model instead of id
  config.available_users_identifiers = { :user => :id }

  # available_users_names is a hash,
  # keys in this hash should match a key in the available_users hash
  # value is the column name which will be displayed in select box
  config.available_users_names = { :user => :email }

  # controller_guard is a block, 
  # if it returns true, the request will continue, 
  # else the request will be refused and returns "Permission Denied"
  # if you switch from "admin" to user, the current_user param is "admin"
  config.controller_guard  = lambda { |current_user, request| Rails.env.development? || ( Rails.env.production? && current_user && current_user.admin?) }

  # view_guard is a block, 
  # if it returns true, the switch user select box will be shown, 
  # else the select box will not be shown
  # if you switch from admin to "user", the current_user param is "user"
  config.view_guard =  lambda { |current_user, request| Rails.env.development? || ( Rails.env.production? && current_user && current_user.admin?) }

  # redirect_path is a block, it returns which page will be redirected 
  # after switching a user.
  config.redirect_path = lambda { |request, params| request.env["HTTP_REFERER"] ? :back : root_path }  
end

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fixed, thanks for pointing it out.

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