I am new to Rails, so this might be a stupid question. However, neither browsing the available online documentation nor googling solved my problem. I have a "legacy" database that is supposed to be accessed both by traditional GUI programs (currently implemented in wxPython) and as well as a web app (RoR based) User authentication and role based authorization is now all handled by the backend (Postgresql) and I want to keep it that way so that nobody in the GUI app can accidentally access records that they are not supposed to access, and so that I don''t have to duplicate work in both GUI app and web app re authentication. 1.) How do I (in RoR) log into a database backend as a specific user with a given password per session? I guess there must be a model base class where I implement this and then derive all further models from this one? 2.) How do I gracefully react to authentication errors coming from the PostgreSQL backend in RoR? (both so easy in Python+ wxPython which I am used to, but I have no idea how to do it in RoR - I would be most grateful for any help) Cheers, Horst --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---