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Hiall, I would be very interested in your opinions on the ModelSecurity plugin by Bruce Perens. http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ModelSecurity/Tutorial.html Some time ago, I read on a few pages that it is the way to go, on this list however, I didn''t read much about it. Apart from it''s security level, quoted from comments in source code: # FIX: At the moment we only support

I''m trying to install Bruce Perens'' ModelSecurity gem, but it keeps asking me if I want to install rails too (I have already installed rails). It exits if I say no and crashes if I say yes: C:\>"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\gem" install model_security_generator Attempting local installation of ''model_security_generator'' Local gem

I just saw a mention here of LoginEngine, which I hadn''t heard of before. Last week when I was digging for user-account sample code for my web-app, I instead found the LoginGenerator and started using that: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/LoginGenerator Is one of these preferred over the other? From skimming the API docs, it does seem that LoginEngine has more features,

I''d like to always add a condition to any version of "find" (e.g. Thing.find(), Thing.find_by_name(), Thing.find_by_whatever) so that in addition to whatever conditions are set, an additional condition is set :conditions=>"user_id=#{current_user.id}" I''d like to make sure that a user only sees/edits/creates entries in the database that have the user_id

Does anyone know a way to restrict access to specific columns in the model to specific users? My plan was to use the session hash to check the permissions of the logged in user in an overridden method of the same name as the model accessor I wanted to restrict, but the model can''t acecss the session. Any other ideas? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi group, I was wondering if anyone more experienced could help me to find a good pattern for two things: 1. How to group controllers. Example: We have an admin panel with: user_managment_controller.rb priv_managment_controller.rb widget_controller.rb User panel with: mystuff_controller.rb mytags_controller.rb profile_controller.rb And frontend with: widget_controller.rb etc... How do I group

Hi all I have a Model like this: class Member < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :username, :email, :first_name, :last_name end I have created a scaffold using script/generate scaffold member members Using the URL localhost:3000/members/edit/1 I can edit all attributes, including created_at, lock_version etc.! But it should only show the attributes I listed in attr_accessible! What

Hi, I''m looking to create an online internet community for managing user profiles and other data. Thus, I would need that has the following features: o authentication - protect individual member pages/directories o session management o retrieve and reset passwords In short, I''m looking to create an online community. Thus, can someone direct me to a plugin(s) for

Hi all, I''m posting this in the hope that someone who understands rails dependencies can shed some light. I''ve implemented a "ModelSecurity" module in the vein of Bruce Peren''s old ModelSecurity plugin (http://rubyforge.org/projects/model- security/). My ModelSecurity module lives in $RAILS_ROOT/lib. It is automatically included into ActiveRecord::Base by a

I want to setup an api for my web app, but i had a few question on the best way to do this. I was hoping for some input from you experienced individuals and rails rock stars. 1) Is there a way to implement a login in feature so that api methods cant be called without proper authorization? This is so i can log activity and use of the api from different people and so -------------- next part

Modelsecurity aims to provide access control within the data model so that it becomes easy & efficient to specify read or write access to individual fields. It has one of those "why didn''t I think of that?" designs which make a lot of sense. Has anyone else tried using the latest release of ModelSecurity? What has been your experience? Home

Hi Community.... I''m new in this game, so this might be a easy question, but I have done my google, without result, so I will try this.... I''m learning ROR, and I''m using Patrick Lens ''Ruby on Rails'' book. (This is written for ror 1.x - and I''m using NetBeans 6.1 - ror 2.x - this might be the problem...) But... I have made this

Hey, I have a main page that lists a table of Devices, along with a Search box. I''d like to have the Search field pull up any related Devices, and then re-populate the table. I can do this without AJAX, just calling my List action over again, passing the params to search on, but with AJAX I get the error, "Cannot convert nil to string" on this line: @device_pages, @devices =

Is there a good plugin that does per page authentication management? For example, I want to allow users to create pages and share them with specific users, all users, or none at all on a per page basis. Benjamin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi there, I''ve added an extra bunch of testing features for doing in-browser testing with Selenium, and am having quite a time figuring out how to use url_for with having a controller object present. I''ve tried using ActionController::Base.url_for and ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper.url_for but haven''t been able to get something that works. What I want to be able

Can anyone recommend good books, online tutorials, or any other learning materials for Javascript - specifically Object Oriented Programming using JS? I want the rest of my dev team to be able to help me code in JS, specifically using prototype and scriptaculous. I''ve been using JS for so long, and I kinda "grew up" on OOP programming but my whole team is Coldfusion

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I was reading this article a while back http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/06/06/did-rails-sink-twitter/ and it got me thinking. If I wanted to set up my app so that each user has his/her own table, how would I go about doing that? "create_table :users" just creates a table in the database for a list of all the users (which I guess I''d want in addition to their individual

Hi I am happy to announce the 0.3.1 release of ActiveRBAC Engine. The biggest improvement on the 0.3 release is that it runs with Rails 1.1 now. Get your personal copy now from https://activerbac.turingstudio.com/releases :) There is a manual PDF with a tutorial available at https://activerbac.turingstudio.com/releases/ActiveRbacManual.pdf which is also included in the full

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