Undefined method logged_in? Ruby on Rails

Question

I can't make head or tail of this (but I'm probably being an idiot). I have a class ApplicationController that contains the following method:

def logged_in?
  !current_user.nil?
end

if logged_in?
  load_and_authorize_resource :unless => :devise_controller?, :except => :show
end

This gives me an error:

undefined method `logged_in?' for ApplicationController:Class

This method is clearly defined, how is it coming back as undefined?

Answer 1

Maybe the best place to declare it is in /helpers/application_helper.rb instead of application_controller.

Also, to verify if a user is signed in, Devise provides the following helper user_signed_in? .

Source: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise

Answer 2

I think you forgot to write:

helper_method :logged_in?

in ApplicationController .