similar to: login_generator Restricting Specific Users

I''m new to Rails and am modifying the ToDo tutorial app into something else. I have successfully installed authentication via login_generator and now I working toward restricting access to certain database records based on the login name. I realize that eventually, I''ll want to use the "id" field, but for now, I just want to use the user name itself. I have

Is there a place where I can put a method that can be accessed in both views and controllers? Here''s the situation, maybe someone can suggest a better way to go about this: I created my own custom login system with email verification and user roles (basically, I tinkered around with SaltedHashLoginGenerator until I finally gave up and wrote my own). One role, of course, is an admin

I am trying to install a gem into my Dreamhost account: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Ruby_on_Rails#Using_gems_installed_in_your_home_directory But it doesn''t work. I don''t quite understand the error message: pico$ gem update --source http://gems.rubyonrails.com Upgrading installed gems... Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyonrails.com Gems: [] updated pico$

Hi All, I''ve been fooling around with the login_generator and the rolling with ruby on rails demo, but I''m jiggered if I can get the two to work together. I''ve managed to get everything installed ok, and have created the db and tables, etc. I''ve been using ruby script\generate login Recipe, and I can either the get the basic tutorial to work, or get the

My application needs to know if a user is an administrator, for security and aesthetic reasons. At the moment, I store true/false in the session by doing the following at login: session[:user_is_admin] = authenticated_user.is_admin? Is this OK to do? Or should I really be doing the following every time: User.find(session[:user_id]).is_admin? (user_id is always in the session too) Is there

I have added roles and roles_users table and updated the model so that my users can have multiple roles. ("Admin" role does always have id = 1). I have added these methods to my application controller. <code> helper_method :is_admin? helper_method :is_user? def is_admin? if @session[''user''] @session[''user''].roles.find(1)

Hi, test "is_admin method is not visible" do get :is_admin assert_??? end is_admin is protected and should stay that way forever. What assertion do I use? M. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am using authlogic as a authentication engine in my rails app. I have two types of users 1) Users who are registered and has access to there own profile. 2) Admin user who has access to everybody''s profile In the user table i have a :is_admin field boolean field which defines the admin user. like the current_user method, Is there a way authlogic provides which can tell me if the

Has anyone seen this happening to their apps? I''m starting to get errors like this come across from one of my apps: ActiveRecord::UnknownAttributeError: unknown attribute: <script type The parameters being sent are: {"user"=> {"email_confirmation"=>"someone-hcDgGtZH8xNBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org",

I have a simple Rails app that I am close to deploying on our intranet. The security model is "either you are an admin or your are not," with the method of implementing this model being done by the login_generator 1.1.0. There is one account set up, ''admin'', with three of us having the ability to logon with this username (i.e. we know the password). I am looking to

I didn''t get a chance to go to this meeting debating WebObjects Vs Rails, but here''s a report about it: http://desperatepundit.com/blog/cremes/technology/2006/02/15/WebObjects-versus-Ruby-On-Rails.html I don''t get what he''s saying, hand coding the model? yeah, you COULD ... but what about script/generate ??? And is that so what he said about security? --

Hi all, I am using rails v.2.3.2 and if I put following line to my ApplicationController: include LoginSystem and I moved my login_system.rb to lib folder: module LoginSystem protected def is_logged_in? @logged_in_user = User.find(session[:user]) if session[:user] end def logged_in_user return @logged_in_user if is_logged_in? end def logged_in_user=(user) if

I'd like to model the relationship between m responses Y1, ..., Ym and a single set of predictor variables X1, ..., Xr. Each response is assumed to follow its own regression model, and the error terms in each model can be correlated. My understanding is that although lm() handles vector Y's on the left-hand side of the model formula, it really just fits m separate lm models. What should

So, I have a User has_many :profiles. The most recently dated profile is considered the current one. I need to sort these users by name, but the name attribute is a member of the associated table. Is there any easy way to do this other than with some ugly find_by_sql? Maybe a more general question - is there a common solution to sorting in Ruby? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hi, This should be really simple, but i cant seem to find the answer anywhere!! In my _form.rhtml I have the following text field, how can I define a default value? <%= text_field ''purchaseorder'', ''number'' %> -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hallo everybody, i already googled the following problem, but there are so many questions regarding "has_many :through", that i just couldn''t find what i was looking for. so, i''m really sorry if this has been asked before. if so, just drop me the link. i have a has_many :through relationship similar to the following example: class Group < ActiveRecord::Base

This seems newbish, but I can''t seem to get this gem to install no matter what I do. The gem in question is login_generator, and no matter what folder I put the .gem file in, it can''t read locally - am I missing something? Remote install hangs at updating the source. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I''ve got this method : def is_admin? @current_user && @current_user.admin == 1 end I want to be able to call this method from all my controllers and all my views. If I put this method in application_controller I can call it from all my controllers but none of my views. If I put this method in application_helper I can call it from all my views but none of my controllers.

Hi all - I''d like to implement a lookup table in my app that contains some reference data, just some status codes and their descriptions. What''s the most appropriate approach according to the "rails way" of doing things? Would I just implement a has_many relationship? Let''s say these are Order status codes, would the StatusCode have many Orders? This

I''ve been searching for ages and not come up with anything on the internet. I was wondering if there is a Rails equiv. for the PHP function str_replace. For example; variable_for_new_string("value_to_repace", "string_to_replace_with", "string_to_perform_modification_to") Thanks in advance for any help. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.