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 completing this task? Finally,
I’m new to Rails but it seems alot easier than ASP.Net being that I
have a Unix environment to work with and Rails seems to create few
lines of code from what I have experienced. Gotta go and thanks in
advance.
Since you’re asking on a Rails list and don’t mention requirements like
integration with other applications outside Rails, I’ll recommend you
look at the LoginEngine/UserEngine combo from the rails-engines.org
site. There are probably at least three or four plugins and add-on
generators that are at least as robust, though.
As you look at things like this and AuthGenerator, ActiveRBAC and
others, you’ll want to look through the ddocumentation and see what
sounds good to you. Maybe more importantly since so much of this, like
RoR itself, is new, you’ll also want to make note of how actively it’s
being developed and maintained. For instance, Bruce P. wrote a
pretty good plugin for this called ModelSecurity with some very nice
hooks for controlling access down to the object attribute level, but it
hasn’t been actively updated in a few months, thew mailing list is an
echo chamber, and it may well no longer work with new versions of RoR.
In other words, of the solutions that meet your needs, go with one with
a reasonably active mailing list and that has been updated recently.
Conrad T. wrote:
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 completing this task? Finally,
I’m new to Rails but it seems alot easier than ASP.Net being that I
have a Unix environment to work with and Rails seems to create few
lines of code from what I have experienced. Gotta go and thanks in
advance.