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My question is how have people implemented different types of users in their Web applications using user-engine? As for my application, I use single table inheritance in order to derive several different types of users, such as "moderators," "editors," etc ... For example, let''s say that I want to create a moderator. I define a new moderator class and Controller like

right now im writing a weblog as my first project in rails. Most tings seems to be working great :), but there is (a least) one thing left i can''t figure out how to do. As most weblogs i would like to have an archive, whick looks like this: January 2006 (42) December 2005 (60) November 2005 (2) October 2005 (101) September 2005 (4) August 2005 (2) July 2005 (101010) where (x) is the

Hi there I''m trying to delete a set of active record objects based on certain conditions. I''d like to do something like the following: Context.delete_all("uri IN (?)", uris) But delete_all doesn''t allow multiple arguments. Since I don''t have the IDs for the objects I want to delete, I can''t use delete(id), and have resorted to this,

I''m not sure what happened, or what change has caused this to happen, but render :partial (or any render for that matter, doesn''t seem to let me set local variables via the local_assigns argument hash. for example <%= render :partial ''edit'', :username => @user.username %> used to allow that username was a local variable in my _edit.rhtml partial

How would I go about setting up my rails applications to soft delete items from the database rather than actually deleting it. I would imagine that I need to over ride the methods from ActiveRecord. Where would I do this would it be in the model? enviroment.rb? I would imagine that if i wanted it throughout my entire application it would need to be in the enviroment.rb. Also to

Hello all. Apologies... I was a little too eager in my earlier annoucement about the Indexed Search Engine for Rails apps. The DB migration file contained an error that had to be worked around. I''ve fixed that, added more (and clearer) documentation, and a sample application. You can find most everything you want to know about Indexed Search Engine here:

Hello all, IndexedSearch Engine for Rails Engines version 0.1.3 has been released. IndexedSearch is a simple, pluggable engine for rails applications which can be used to enable full text indexed searches within an application. Searchable data is parsed, stemmed using the Porter stemmer, and added to a fully indexed table. This allows you to index things like "he runs fast" which will

The 0.2.0 release of the Indexed Search Engine<http://lance.langwell-ball.com/pages/indexed-search>is released. The Indexed Search Engine is a Ruby on Rails Engine <http://rails-engines.org> which helps you to easily add quick indexing and search capabilities to your application. Check out the project page<http://lance.langwell-ball.com/pages/indexed-search>for more info.-- --

Hello and happy new year. This message has also been posted to the Rails Engines Users list, and it was recommended that I widen my audience. I''ve created a rails engine for adding a fully indexed search capability to your rails applications. >From the README: "IndexedSearchEngine is a simple, pluggable engine for rails applications which can be used to enable full text