I’m working on a management interface for a Single Login
authentication system.
We have server web apps, each app can have different installs (same
code base different database connection), and available user rights
are identical on all instances of a particular web app. They would
also like basic support for rolls, with default right sets that can be
applied to users.
What I have been trying for the last day is to make this work
Software
Has Many rights and instances
Rights
Belongs to software
Instances
Belongs to software
I’m pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to tie a user into
that relationship so that a user on a specific instance has a set of
rights that are not shared across all instances.
The other applications are not rails based; most are classic asp, in
many ways this is part of a push to try to update some older
nightmarish software as well.
Any advice or suggestions are appreciated.
Ok, I guess my question is a little to broad, our DB designer ended up
giving us a database that we have to use.
I’m running into a problem where I’m not sure how to make the model
connections
I have the following tables/models
Users
Instances
Rights
Instances_Users
Instances_Rights_Users
I would like to be able to find out what rights a user has on a given
instance.
Can you do
has_many :instances_rights
has_many :instances_rights_users, :through => :instances_rights
has_many :rights, :through => instance_rights_users
or for this three way relationship am I better off finding by SQL?
Take a look at this plugin :
http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/nested_has_many_through
There are some examples
I love it 
Thank You!
You are my Hero!
On Jul 19, 9:34 am, Stijn P. [email protected]
A much better solution would be to use a single sign on model where
authentication is done in one place and authorization stays with the
application.
http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/
The protocol is actually quite simple. I implemented a cas server and
client in a day.
Chris