Rails - Aug 2007 - Modifying the restful_authentication plugin / Classes creating instances of themselves.

Hi,

I''m trying to modify the restful_authentication plugin so that it
first authenticates against LDAP (Active Directory), if successful, it
tries to find a matching user with the same username in the database,
through a model ''user''. If it finds a user, it updates a
last_login
attribute; if it doesn''t find one, it creates one. The "remember
me"
functionality is also incorporated.

I have incorporated these changes into the sessions controller and
that is all working fine but I don''t know how to incorporate them into
the authenticated_system module. Basically the authenticated_system.

I suppose my question really is: Is it okay for a model class to
create an instance of itself in a class method? As this is the only
way I can think of keeping the http authentication that is offered by
restful_authentication.

Thanks,
Toby


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>Hi,
>
>I''m trying to modify the restful_authentication plugin so that it
>first authenticates against LDAP (Active Directory), if successful, it
>tries to find a matching user with the same username in the database,
>through a model ''user''. If it finds a user, it updates a
last_login
>attribute; if it doesn''t find one, it creates one. The
"remember me"
>functionality is also incorporated.
I do something similar and didn''t have to change
lib/authenticated_system.rb.

I first check an external database that has authentication information.

If authentication is successful and this user does not already exist locally I
copy the authentication tokens and the rest of the user attributes I am
interested in to my local user model.

If I can''t connect to the external database I authenticate to my local
User model.

This is all done with modifications to the User model. You can see the code
here:

  svn.concord.org/svn/teemss2/branches/teemss2diy-plus-sail/app/models/user.rb

Look at the code that starts with this method:

# Authenticates a user by their login name and unencrypted password.  Returns
the user or nil.
def self.authenticate(identifier, password)
  user = User.remote_authenticate(identifier, password)
  user || local_authenticate(identifier, password)
end

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That''s great thanks. My question was really vague and you still
managed to answer it perfectly!

On Aug 5, 12:52 am, Stephen Bannasch
<stephen.banna...-BPmR3cMxM6/dtAWm4Da02A@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> >Hi,
>
> >I''m trying to modify the restful_authentication plugin so that
it
> >first authenticates against LDAP (Active Directory), if successful, it
> >tries to find a matching user with the same username in the database,
> >through a model ''user''. If it finds a user, it
updates a last_login
> >attribute; if it doesn''t find one, it creates one. The
"remember me"
> >functionality is also incorporated.
>
> I do something similar and didn''t have to change
lib/authenticated_system.rb.
>
> I first check an external database that has authentication information.
>
> If authentication is successful and this user does not already exist
locally I copy the authentication tokens and the rest of the user attributes I
am interested in to my local user model.
>
> If I can''t connect to the external database I authenticate to my
local User model.
>
> This is all done with modifications to the User model. You can see the code
here:
>
>  
svn.concord.org/svn/teemss2/branches/teemss2diy-plus-sail/app/models/user.rb
>
> Look at the code that starts with this method:
>
> # Authenticates a user by their login name and unencrypted password. 
Returns the user or nil.
> def self.authenticate(identifier, password)
>   user = User.remote_authenticate(identifier, password)
>   user || local_authenticate(identifier, password)
> end

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