ruby on rails worst practice

I was helping lagcisco (on "#rubyonrails":irc://irc.freenode.org/rubyonrails) get started on my ComicLog project, and he discovered my user authentication stuff wasn't working. I started moving code around, and happened to make a nice boolean method for the valid property of my User model.

def valid?
  return self.valid > 0
end

Everything was fine, but now my validations were not working. I tweaked my validation statements for about an hour when it hit me, I was overriding the valid? method! I'll probably end up renaming that method to registered?

I still don't know why the authentication was failing. I added an authenticate call in my unit test so I should be able to catch it if it pops up again.

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