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Hello I have been trying a number of security/login generators recently. My favourite so far is the Acts_as_authenticated. I like the fact that it is only billed as a starting point and doesn''t try to do everything. I would like to add security roles to it, so that some of my controller actions can only be used by an admin role. Has anybody implemented this using

Whereabouts would I want to put a Ruby file that extends a Rails class? Say, adding a method to ActiveRecord::Base or something along those lines. I''ve read that those classes go in /lib, but my application doesn''t seem to see the changes I''ve made. Obviously I''m missing something... Any suggestions would be appreciated! -Brasten