similar to: User Authentication for Event Tracking

Chad Fowler gave two keynote presentations at CUSEC 2006 in January. The second one he gave was entitled "Rails is Boring and Ruby is a Toy" and is available through the SOENlive podcast. For those handful who might of not heard of Chad Fowler yet, he is the author of "Rails Recipes" which is presently available as a beta book. (Great book, you should get it out)

So I''m trying to follow along in Chad Fowler''s Rails Recipes (recipe #59, Keeping track of who did what) and I simply want to access the current user from within my cache sweeper. Normally you just reference @current_user but that doesn''t seem to be the case here. In Chad''s example, he calls controller.session[:user]. What''s the Authlogic equivalent?

First a helper... Have a boolean field - on forms, it returns ''true'' or ''false'' It would be much nicer to have it say either ''yes'' or ''no'' is there a helper for this? Where do I find a list of helpers beyond Agile book? Secondly, plugins... I know that I am going to have to look at authentication mechanisms and

Hi everyone, I was wondering what the common practice for handling multiple db users with fine grained privileges on multiple databases is. Against the often read guideline for rails users to keep with a single db as "more dbs don''t really make sense anyway", my opinion is that it DOES make sense to use more than one db schema for a number of reasons that I won''t

The second beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s killer book or writing real-world Rails, is now available. It features seven new recipes: * In Place Editing * Making Your Own JavaScript Helper * Many To Many With Attributes On The Relationship * Dealing With Time Zones * Living On The Edge * Making Your Own Rails Plugins (contributed by Rick Olson, aka technoweenie) * Polymorphic

Folks: The fourth beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s book or writing real- world Rails, is now available. It features nine new recipes (and fixes the PDF bookmark problem): - Secret URLs - Integration Testing - Cheap And Easy Theme Support - Lightning Fast JavaScript Auto Completes - Use Active Record Outside Of Rails - Sharing Models Between Applications - Keeping Track Of Who Did

Folks: The fifth beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s book on writing real-world Rails, is now available. The book now has its full quota for 70 recipes. Here''s the complete list. Part I--User Interface Recipes In-Place Form Editing Making Your Own JavaScript Helper Live Preview Live Search Creating a Drag-and-Drop Sortable List (extract) Update

Hi All, Pragmatic Dave Thomas tells me that Rails Recipes (http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr) is now shipping! He and Andy apparently have over a ton of books to deliver. If you''ve ordered a paper book, it''s soon on the way. If you''ve been waiting, now''s the time. Amazon is also has the book in stock

I read the 13th recipe in the book "Rails Recipes" from Chad Fowler. I install with gem the gruff-library (gem install gruff). After the installation, I download the "rmagick-win32-1.13.0_IM-6.2.9-3.zip" file and install it on my win32-machine. It was successfully! So, I create a controller with script/generate. In a method, which I wrote after the creation, I''ll make

I''ve been going through Recipe 1 of the "Rails Recipes" book by Chad Fowler. In-place editing is working just fine but I''ve noticed that the textboxes now won''t let me introduce letters with accents, as in "caf?". Is there some way to work around this problem? I guess I could go into the javascript to find that particular input validation but I wanted

Hello, When I run: rake db:migrate , I get the "uninitialized constant mysql" error. I issue the command inside the root of the application InPlaceEditing, a recipe from Chad Fowler''s Rails Recipes. The InPlaceEditing application is inside the directory: c:\instantrails\rails_apps\InPlaceEditing I can run the InstantRails Cookbook tutorial, no problem, so MySql itself is

Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

I was able to follow the search recipe in Chad Fowler''s upcoming book but I''m wondering if there is any sort of recipe/guide out there to actually perform the search once the auto-complete does its stuff. Anyone? It''s kind of hard to search for search.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

All: I have been working on making a self-referential habtm relationship that uses a join model because I want to store info about the relationship. I have been using two sections from Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" as a guide, "Self-referential Many-to-Many Relationships" and "Many to Many Relationships Where the Relationship Itself has Data". So far I have

I''m delighted to announce that Chad Fowler''s new book, Rails Recipes, is now available as a Beta Book. This is a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who want to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for doing real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working code. Some examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.

Hello! I have been working on making a self-referential habtm relationship that uses a join model because I want to store info about the relationship. I have been using two sections from Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" as a guide, "Self-referential Many-to-Many Relationships" and "Many to Many Relationships Where the Relationship Itself has Data". So far I

I''ve gone through Chad Fowler''s recipe for creating a drag and drop sortable list, and have been trying to extend this to a sortable tree. Has anyone come up with or seen code which allows drag and drop sorting (altering the position and parent_id variables of the relevant objects) but for data in a nested tree rather than a list form? - Justin

I want to put a ''search_box'' text_field in the header of each page. The search_box is implemented in a controller named ''users''. (so Controller_A is calling a component in Controller_B) When I add this line to my ''controllers/application.rb'' file, I don''t understand why I get and ''undefined method'' error. After all,

Hello Rubyists! We on the OSCON presentation committee wanted to remind you all that the deadline for proposals for this year''s O''Reilly Open Source Convention is Midnight (PST) Feb 13. So you have the rest of this week and the weekend to get those talk proposals in! The talk proposal form is here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/create/e_sess/ You can read more

I decided to play with the plugin acts_as_taggable based on Chad Fowler''s book Rails Recipes. Is it just me or can tags only be one word? If not can you explain to me how to assign multi-word tags using the acts_as_taggable plugin. Thanks :-) John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source