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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 occured while evaluating nil.roles i am pretty new to rails and

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

Hello, I''m trying to spec a Rails application using the couple restful_authentication/acl_system2 plugins. In my admin layout, I put the following code : <% restrict_to "admin" do -%> <ul id="admin-tabs"> <li> /users Users management </li> </ul> <% end -%> Then in my spec file

i am trying to create a system so that different users have different priviliges on my application. i was going to modify my authorize function so that i could pass the required role to it and have it check the current user for that role. i am using before_filter and would like to have just one function instead of writing one for each role like so: authorize(role) instead of:

Does the restrict_to method only work in the views for some reason? I have tried it in the controller and i get the "undefined local variable or method `restrict_to'' for Admin::SurveysController:Class" Ive even copied the code from the access_control.rb in the plugin to the application_helper but it still keeps giving the same error. def restrict_to(logicstring, context = {})

does anyone know much about resizing different versions of images with file_column? i tried it and everything works fine, but my question is can you do more than just make sizes with a version of image? i''m working on a photo album and i would like to resize the image to a medium size, but create a thumbnail as well and crop anything left to make the thumbnail a perfect square. --

i''m still pretty new to rails, and while i''ve been able to hack my way into having it do what i want so far, i''m not happy with the way my code looks. on top of that, i''m sure that what i''m doing prlly isn''t the most efficient either. one of my biggest problems is probably to do with using relationships and forms together. i''ve

i used the hivelogic article to install ruby on rails to my mac: http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger everything works great using the script/server command, but isn''t that still using WEBrick? how do i server my apps with lightTPD? i tried following the instructions given here: http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2005/12/railsonlighty but have had no

I''ve been working with ActionMailer for a few days and finally have a pretty good grasp of it. In the book I''m reading, it shows how to send to multiple users or an array of users. Is there a setting or some configuration I can do to send the email to each person separately, or would I just need to loop through each user and send one email at a time? What is the best way to

could someone explain some of the uses for a web service. i''m reading about how to make them, but i''m still not quite sure what they''re good for. i have multiple rails apps that i would like to pass user information back and forth to. i''m not sure if something like this could help me or not. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi I have a strange problem with Shared folders in MMC. While I try to connect to linux machine and list Open files or Sessions I got a message "You do not have permission to view the list of sessions from Windows clients". The problem exists only if I try to connect to linux machines (Windows Server is ok), and only for Administrator account. From other accounts with Administrator

i have a copy of the typo source on my desktop that i am going through just to get a better understanding of the rails framework and ruby itself. i''m fairly new to everything so it has proved to be very helpful and very inspiring. i''m stuck on a part though. i was trying to figure out how everything on the sidebar works. i found the components folder and started looking

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

i have a datetime field in my database that i need broken up. i want to display the date and the time in separate places. i tried looking through the api, but couldn''t find what i was looking for. if someone could please point me in the right direction to format dates, that would be great. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi folks. So I''m using mocha on a ruby project, and I really like it. One thing I''ve noticed is that it can be a bit "surprising" when I''m mocking methods that don''t exist on an object, and I think there''s an easyish fix. At the moment, you use sheep = mock() to create a mock sheep. What I''d like to do is something like sheep =

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

Hi there I have several view specs, that include the following snippet in their "before" block to stub the methods by acts_as_authenticated before :each do @u = mock_model(User) @u.should_receive(:name).and_return("Hans Muster") template.should_receive(:logged_in?).and_return(true) template.should_receive(:current_user).and_return(@u) end this

Hi, I have tried to add a user (not a group) to "domain admin group" in smb.conf with no success. If i use the usermanager an check the Administrators group on the local machine there are two members, Administrator and DOMAIN\unix_group.2147483404 and the user does NOT get administrative priviliges on the local machine. If I add the user to the Administrators group on the local machine

Hello, I'm trying to get Samba and CFS (cryptographic file system) to work. What I want is to mount a crypted directory (on my Debian Sarge server) as a Samba share to my WinXP box. I've already set up a crypted directory (/crypt/crypt) as a user. And I've also set up a Samba share for this 'virtual' directory. I can access and delete files from that folder over the Samba

I have Samba 4 (lastest version, I think) set up for Active Driectory. Everything is working just, using Microsoft's Group Policy Editor to manage stuff. Except one thing: For reasons you don't want to get me started on, I need all users to have local administrative priviliges on any computer on the domain. This is supposed to be a simple, straightforward thing. Google has led me to