title: rails3 authlogic admin roles
body: <p>I have authlogic working fine but now have the need to let administrator users come in and have different access. </p>
  
  <p>So I created a migration adding <code>administrator</code> column to the <code>Users</code> table as string.  However, I just can not seem to get the value of it out!!</p>
  
  <p>see below my index action:</p>
  
  <pre><code>print "\n administrator" + User.find(current_user.id).administrator.to_s
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the above line never prints anything when I know that this user HAS <code>administrator</code> string set to <code>true</code> in the db.</p>
  
  <p>Below is the User model</p>
  
  <pre><code>class User &lt; ActiveRecord::Base
    acts_as_authentic  {|config| 
      config.validates_uniqueness_of_email_field_options :scope =&gt; :id
    }
    belongs_to :another_class
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>what am I doing wrong here?  All I want to do is get the administrator column value out.  In the logs I can see the <code>select users.* from users where id = 2</code> query being run!</p>
  
  <p>is there another best way to manage admin roles with authlogic??</p>