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I''m totally baffled by the relation between objects and the session and when an object is still available. It seems to me that there should be a simple session.rb file (like the session.java file in WebObjects). Right now, I''m just trying to figure out how to keep an object around, say a User object, without saving it to the db, so that I can tell at any point whether the

...ActiveResource seems to indicate that there will be some kind of credentials system (?) Perhaps an IP check would work for my purposes. Lelu, the dog & Russ McBride, PhD Candidate Philosophy Dept. 314 Moses Hall #2390 University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-2390 510-558-1662 Russ@psyex.com

Hi, My application has a table of People that has information about them, and I want to have a subset of those people as Users - people that can login to the application. What is the best way to do this? Add columns to People that only Users would use? I''ve read the threads on single table inheritance, but it seemed a little bit wasteful: 10,000 people vs 50 users For those more

I''m curious -- how many of us came to Rails from other branches of the OO world -- Java, C# -- and how many of us came from the design or non-OO scripting worlds? Reason I ask is that I''m finding Rails a blast and very productive, but I think one reason is that I already cut my teeth on MVC and ORM during two years of writing apps with J2EE/Struts/Hibernate. And in Javaland, it

I''m just looking into how to connect to Oracle using Rails. I''ve got everything connecting and working as it should. I have a Users table in Oracle: create_table "users", :force => true do |t| t.column "username", :string t.column "created_on", :datetime t.column "email", :string t.column "note", :text

I''m building a collection of desktop app''s and want to use ruby, and Active Record in particular, as an intermediary layer to my databases. I''m not sure how to connect my development environment, Runtime Revolution, to Ruby and Active Record. One option is to just set up a RonR environment and have my app''s make calls that return regular text results