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...o after the login_required before filter. This plugin is for authorization and assumes that the user is already logged in. Here is a link to the announcement on my blog where I go into more detail about how to use this in your applications: http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/02/20/new-plugin-acl_system The main goal of this implementation is to be lightweight as as non imposing as possible. It does what it does and gets out of your way. Right now it only works for protecting your controller actions. I am working on the next version that has a similar protection scheme for protecting spe...

hey all, i''m having some pretty aggravating moments with the begining of the installation of the acl_system(..permissions, etc) provided on http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/LoginGeneratorACLSystem ...for some apparent(or non-apparent, to be exact) reason, my application.rb won''t read the require_dependency "acl_system" line in the app. controller! i checked the lib f...

i found Ezra''s acl_system plugin yesterday and i am trying to figure it out. based on the simple instructions on the site, it does exactly what i need but i''m getting some errors when i try to use it: NoMethodError in UsersController#index You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error oc...

Hi all, I have a question about this method in my User model: # Returns true for the (saved) user called "admin" def is_the_administrator true if save and name == "admin" end The method returns true if the user''s name is admin. However, I only want to return true if the state of the object is "saved", so I call the save method first. I''m

There are a number of good authentication frameworks for rails - has anyone developed a generic authorization framework? I''m thinking of something that included the concept of roles, mapped roles to both actions and users and could be used to wrap actions before their invocation. Extra good would be some way to check data permissions (as in, "yes you can perform the ''Edit

Does anyone have a sense for how painful the 1.0 -> 1.1 upgrade is going to be for existing apps? I''m finishing up my first real RoR application with Rails 1.0. I can live with it staying at that level, but I really want to use the has_many :through attribute to clean up some of my code. I''m not particularly interested in edge Rails, mainly because the documentation for

...case it throws the following error: NoMethodError in Admin#index protected method `access_denied'' called for #<AdminController:0x408fc9a8> RAILS_ROOT: script/../config/.. Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace ./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/acl_system/lib/caboose/access_control.rb:24:in `access_control'' The prob seems to be in the following code block: 23 if c.respond_to?(:access_denied) 24 c.access_denied 25 else 26 c.send(:render_text, "You have insufficient permissions to access...

I''ve been googling around trying to find some tips on creating tests for plugins. Am I correct in assuming that I''d have to have the tests as part of a rails app in order to test the plugin? I''d like to find a way to do standalone tests for the plugin. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello list, I have an app that has a very simple authorization scheme. A person can have many roles and roles can have many people. In my app, I''d like to do before_filter :login_required (since no role name is provided, it accepts any users with credentials) before_filter :login_required ("administrator") (only accepts those with role administrator) before_filter

Hi I have just released the 0.3 revision of ActiveRecord - make sure to get the fresh, hot packages from https://activerbac.turingstudio.com/releases What is ActiveRBAC? ------------------- ActiveRBAC is a Ruby on Rails library that provides a full stack RBAC (Role Based Authorization) system with user, group, role and permission management. It provides models and controllers to edit

Hi, I just finished writing this plug-in. I''ve been using rails for awhile but this is my first time extracting some code and writing it as a plug-in and I''d love to hear to some feedback. Thanks. http://mitchellhashimoto.com/rails/role-based-access-control-plug-in-for-rails/ -Mitchell -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have been looking at the LoginGenerator gem. Looks great and can be easily modified. However in my app I have two places where people can login, one is for in my case "employees" the other is for "users". They are seperate tables in my database and have many different fields. I have an admin area located at ./sysadmin/ where only "employees" can login, they

in the Rails Recipes book there is a chapter on role-based authentication. it basically set up priviliges based on what page the user was able to access. i went through the chapter and felt like i got a pretty good understanding of how to do it. now i am needing something a little more advanced though. instead of a per page (or action) i would like to have certain sections on a page either

I''ve successfully gotten acts_as_authenticated working. Currently the before_filter line for my admin screen is like this: class AdminController < ApplicationController include AuthenticatedSystem before_filter :login_required Only issue I have now is that anyone logged in can access that screen. I''d like to differentiate between a regular user and

hi guys, has anyone here implemented role based authorization from rails recipes into acts_as_authenticated ? how''s it going? Case: there is ONE admin. And MANY users. Admin is the only one who can create, edit, delete user, etc.. users also need to login, but go to different pages. do you guys think it''s good to try rick''s acts_as_authenticated + chad''s

Hello All, I know there is a component for integrating LDAP with Rails but is anyone doing any Windows Active Directory Authentication to a Rails app? I am rebuilding a site that was constructed out of asp and I would like to rebuild/improve it via rails. On the requirements side I will need to communicate with Active Directory and I will be required to use MSSQL for the database. Can anyone