Binarylogic Authlogic

The RailsAdapter relies on being loaded before any of the app's controllers, so it can put activate_authlogic in ActionController::Base's filter_chain before it gets copied to the subclasses. However, there's no guarantee this is the case.

For example, if you happen to put giraffesoft-resource_controller's gem statement ahead of authlogic's, it doesn't work. Resource_controller requires ApplicationController, so the filter_chain is initialized before authlogic gets a crack at it.

This results in the dreaded Authlogic::Session::Activation::NotActivatedError (You must activate the Authlogic::Session::Base.controller with a controller object before creating objects).

The workaround is just to make sure authlogic is loaded before any conflicting gems. If there's no foolproof way to ensure the filter gets installed, it would be nice if authlogic could just detect this case and save potential hours of frustration. E.g., like this:

       module RailsImplementation
         def self.included(klass) # :nodoc:
+          STDERR.puts "Warning: authlogic loaded too late!" if defined?(::ApplicationController)
           klass.prepend_before_filter :activate_authlogic
         end