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i got the rails recipes book, i have now an auth system for users without problems, now i want to made a role based acces for my app, im following the "Role Based Authorization" recipe of the book but i cant make it to work even when the tables created and correctly added data manually definig the roles and rights. als i dont know how to define a right for use all the actions in a

Im still following the authorization recipe from the book, now all works fine but im getting trouble in how handle the model authorization result, if the user and pass are correct, it goes to a welcome screen(admin.rhtml) but if wrong the model prints a message in an ugly exception like page "usr and pass not correct", i want to redirect the user to the login

Hi there I am wondering if we can use before_filter in the form of :action OR :action what i want to do is to implement one of the actions, if the first failed, then go to the second when i use before_filter :action1 before_filter :action2 each method will run them, my case is that i want to check if one of them is true and not both any idea?

Hi people, i just finished my first weblog, with comments, auth and admin zone(yay!) so i was looking for a way to make a rich text editor zone for the posts, right now im using textilize() and <br> html tags to format the text and breaklines so hope some one can give a reference in how to achieve that. Already told you that this rails stuff its amazing :) -- Posted via

I am aware that controllers can be placed in modules: ruby script/generate controller modulename/controllername But what does this buy me? Is it just a way of ensuring that my source code is nicely arranged, or can I use the fact that a set of controllers are all within a particular model to implement functionality common to all of those controllers? Why am I asking? The app

Hi guys, im trying to install rmagick on windows but i have some problems with the post install, im using win2000, ruby 1.8.4 and rails 1.1, all working well. Then i downloaded RMagick-1.9.2-IM-6.2.4-6-win32.zip from http://rubyforge.org/projects/rmagick/ extracted and do the gem install RMagick-win32-1.9.2-mswin32.gem , the gem was installed sucesfully but when i do the postinstall.rb i get

Hi All I wanted a little advice on the convention for namespace usage and organisation of code. I originally used PHP and often had an "admin" backend that performed the various admin tasks with users, and data Then I had a front-end often situated at the root that had user services. I''m trying to emulate this in Rails but feel I''m missing a significant point here and

Hi all We all know the model-controller-paradigm: I have a model "News" which has a corresponding CRUD-controller "NewsController". But now I''m quite unsure about the following... Guess we have normal visitors that visit our site www.??.com/news and we have administrators that create and modify news items. The admin should see an "Edit" link and a

Hi, I have four controllers: one for the store front and three for the store admin. In each controller I have copied and pasted exactly the same code. It is a method called redirect_to() to override Action Controller''s redirect_to(). Copy and paste is bad. I can think of two options but I don''t know how Rails will feel about them. Option 1: Can I create an intermediate

Can you set a global before_filter action in application.rb? So, for example, you could control authentication for all of the controllers in an app.? Obviously, you would need a way to reference actions by controller within this "global before-filter". Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, The user/login management system in Chapter 31: Authenticating Your Users and Chapter 32: Authorizing Users with Roles of Chad Fowler''s Rails Recipes looks reasonable and adequate. However, when I ran the Chapter 31 code, I get the following error: Username or password invalid And I am not even given the chance to sign in; that is, the signin form does not appear at all. Has

I have an odd problem. I got controllers in a namespace and controllers outside of the namespace. For example, I have a PagesController and a Admin::PagesController. When I run rspec from the top, tests pass and I get the following warning: spec/controllers/admin/pages_controller_spec.rb:4: warning: toplevel constant PagesController referenced by Admin::PagesController This makes no sense. I do

Hi! I was trying to cleanup my app and I runned into quite a problem. My controllers in submodule do not seem to inherit things from base class. I have following setup: app/controllers/ application.rb: class ApplicationController admin/ admin_controller.rb: class Admin::AdminController < ApplicationController include LoginEngine include UserEngine

Hello! I have certain methods in my Application Controller, that I need to access. Namely ApplicationController#logged_in_user The problem is, that when I try to access it, I get: NoMethodError: protected method `logged_in_user'' called for #<AdminController> Any ideas how I can circumvent that? Or are functional tests really not suited for any kind of logins and session work?

Out of curiosity, I''ve seen the following fail: module Admin describe MyController ... end end But this works fine: describe Admin::MyController .. end Why? Scott

I have a lot of controllers with virtually identical functionality for most actions. I''ve been using shared behaviours to DRY things up a bit, but I still have to create separate behaviours for each context before I can use the shared behaviours what I have now is a generic file which contains all the behaviours and examples common to all the controllers, and that file gets loaded from

Ok guys, after doing many tutorial arond the web i realize that im not going to learn rails well until a made my own app, so i defined what i want and structured in a way that hope you can understand, maybe we can help each other and define a good starting base(models and relationships) that can be helpful for all of us. Its a little(i think cms), it will consist of basically 4 sections:

I''ve successfully gotten acts_as_authenticated working. Currently the before_filter line for my admin screen is like this: class AdminController < ApplicationController include AuthenticatedSystem before_filter :login_required Only issue I have now is that anyone logged in can access that screen. I''d like to differentiate between a regular user and

I am writing a controller admin/cities_controller.rb it inherits from AdminController, so it''s defined like class Admin::CitiesController > AdminController Whenever I save the controller file, autotest freaks out: uninitialized constant Admin::AdminController (NameError) I''m pretty used to just hitting CTRL-C to get autotest to re-load all the files, or flicking to

I just got the rails recipes book and i couldnt be more happy, but inside the book there are some details, mostly typos but this one its one i cant fix, im following the Authorization recipe on page 128 i create the table and the model, the problem comes when i try to assign a password to a user in the console, here is the output: >> justin = User.create(:username =>