Case insensitive login
Jim Harvey
Matt Jones
On Sep 14, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Jim Harvey wrote:
> This is a bit of a follow-up to the last question I posted regarding case sensitive searching using Postgres. The problem I have now is that users log in with their email address, which is always converted to lowercase when an account is created. However, some users might use capital letters when they attempt to log in. They SHOULD be to do that. However, right now we have to specify on the log in page that they use lowercase only, which, to me, seems unprofessional.
>
> So, where can I convert their input to lowercase so that the email matches when they attempt to log in? I don't want to completely overwrite hobo's login action in the controller and the options I can pass to hobo_login do not help in this situation. Has anyone else run into this problem? Please let me know if I'm missing something. Thanks!
The quickest solution I can think of would be to add a before_filter in your UsersController:
class UsersController < ApplicationController
hobo_user_controller
auto_actions :all
before_filter :normalize_login, :only => [:login, :forgot_password]
protected
def normalize_login
params[:login].downcase!
params[:email_address].downcase!
end
end
You didn't ask about the forgot password part, but an identical argument applies to that situation...
--Matt Jones