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I am a the point now where I have to add user authentification to my application. Anyone can point me toward an easy to use / secure library? I know about ActiveRBAC and was wondering if there is anything else that I should consider. Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''ve posted a lengthy description of an authorization plugin for Rails on my blog: http://www.billkatz.com/authorization It describes a proposed DSL for authorization, a pattern for use that describes conventions, and a reference implementation that lets you test the some of the ideas. I hope that some subset of Rails programmers gravitate toward a common DSL for authorization, which would ease sha...

Hi, I''m working on an app - my first Rails - and am looking for some suggestions on the best way (or good way) to set up my models / DB. In general there are teams and matches; a team will participate in multiple matches, and in each match there will be 6 teams - 3 vs. 3. I''m going to want to be able, for a particular team, pull up all matches for that team, to display a

Right now I have a controller for "events" that belong to a specific user. I only want the creator to be able to edit or delete the event. I''ve got the proper foreign keys set up. I''ve finally arrived at the point where I can take baby steps with code, but looks like my first steps are in flagrant violation of the DRY principle. Here''s what I have so far in

Google''s Summer of Code program is opened for 2006. The Ruby community didn''t respond quickly enough last year, but hopefully we can get some sponsors for Rails and Ruby. Would someone high-up in the Ruby and/or Rails community try to run with this? -Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hey, I was just wondering - are there any Ruby and/or Rails t-shirts available? Or nice, big graphics available to make your own? Joe -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m wondering what other folks think of Dojo (0.1 just released), MochiKit, and some of the other js frameworks relative to prototype/scriptaculous (p/s). P/S seems to have broader support although I''m not sure about IE 5.5 in the other frameworks. A second question is related. I''ve got some AJAX working with prototype + behaviour, and I''m building in refresh

I''ve been playing with some ideas in getting the server-side Rails code and client-side AJAX stuff working nicely together while still providing fallback for non-js viewers. I''m using Behaviour + prototype. I was experimenting with using an object literal to define forms that would be inserted into appropriate divs. Why not just write the forms on the server side and unhide

Is anybody else getting this warning. When I change @user.id to @user.User_id I am getting no method definition present exception. Any thoughts? Rgds, --Siva Jagadeesan http://www.varcasa.com/ My First Rails Project. Powered by Typo and soon by RForum too -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I have a working Rails app with several related tables, but can''t find an answer to this question in the Dave Thomas Rails book. Imagine for example: table departments with columns: id, department_name table employees with columns: id, department_id, employee_name and of course the employees table has a constraint foreign key (department_id) references departments(id) So this is

I have a User ActiveRecord model that has email and password properties. I want to build a login for that has a "remember me" option. My view looks like this: <% @page_title = "Login" -%> <%= error_messages_for ''user'' %> <%= form_tag %> <table> <tr> <td align="right" width="1%"

there is a blog about it http://www.realityforge.org/articles/2005/11/12/aaa_in_rails There are so many Authentication/Authorization/Auditing generators now, just like the situation in java''s world, Too many components doing the samething just make me confusion. Why not add one to rails core lib and everybody can extend it for their requirement ? -- Posted via

Hello, I want to allow some users to manage other user accounts, but do not want them to manage the admin account. I have tried auth_generator, login_engine and user_engine I am having a hard time gettign this to work. Looking for advise and help. Thanks Frank -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

It seems like everyone now has a RoR type framework: Perl: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ PHP: http://cakephp.org/ Python: http://www.django.com ASP.NET: http://www.castleproject.org/index.php/Main_Page etc., etc. Has a revolution begun with the birth of these "Web 2.0" frameworks? Its going to be interesting when the tech media begins its mass hype like it did SOAP, XML, etc. a

Is there any reason to avoid using postgresql for small web apps? That is, is it''s overhead so large that the lighter MySQL will work substantially better for small apps on small machines? Or are they very similar in performance and configuration? I''ve used MySQL but postgresql has its appeals and I''m wondering if I need to keep MySQL around at all. On the other

I have just open sourced my Content Management System called Seymore. Rather than having a separate administration section for managing content, content management functions are available throughout the site so users are able to contextually and comfortably manage the content. I am looking for any and all feedback. Please, either checkout the latest source from subversion, grab version 0.1 from

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

I''ve been getting some good feedback on the Authorization plugin (http://www.writertopia.com/developers/authorization). Josh Susser suggested I use exclamation marks when I''m setting roles. The basic ways of setting roles uses the #has_role, #has_no_role, #accepts_role, and #accepts_no_role methods: user.has_role ''site_admin'' user.has_role

http://www.writertopia.com/developers/authorization Inching toward full release. Minor changes, now lets you set constants for redirection and store locations in environment.rb, and removal of a dumb double redirect error that was introduced during refactoring. Also added an integration test (contributed by David Altenburg) that would have caught the issue. The authorization plugin provides the

Hi, I''m getting an infrequent "Socket Error (getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution)" when sending e-mail with ActionMailer. Most of the time, mail works. But I noticed the error during testing and wondered what best practices might be for handling this kind of error. My SMTP settings look OK. I''m running RHEL 3 for my Rails app and use an external SMTP