Active Directory

Rails
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Hello,

I have been asked to write an intranet app that deals with certain HR
functionality. It would be awesome to be able to tie into Active
Directory from Rails. Has anyone ever done this before? If so, what
did you use and like/dislike about it.

Thanks

Steven Elliott Jr

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Ya, I was going to go the raw LDAP route myself but I’ve been scouring
the web for something else. I’ll take a look at the link you sent and
report back if it works alright. If its no good I may or may not write
own bit which i will put on github… I have read your book, Jeff, it
got me started in Rails. Our entire infrastructure runs on .NET and as
CTO I’m trying to introduce more agile methods and get rails going in
the enteprirse. to date i’ve been able to put rails to work on about 5
outwardly facing apps for our members… pretty awesome indeed.
Whoever said Rails isnt ready for the enterprise either didn’t try
hard enough or didn’t understand the technology. I was skeptical at
first until I tried it too but the productivity gains just cant be
measured valuable enough.

On Nov 6, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Jeff wrote:

Thanks

purpleworkshops.com

Steven Elliott Jr.
[email protected]

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On Nov 6, 11:46 am, Steven Elliott Jr [email protected]
wrote:

I have read your book, Jeff, it
got me started in Rails. Our entire infrastructure runs on .NET and as
CTO I’m trying to introduce more agile methods and get rails going in
the enteprirse. to date i’ve been able to put rails to work on about 5
outwardly facing apps for our members… pretty awesome indeed.
Whoever said Rails isnt ready for the enterprise either didn’t try
hard enough or didn’t understand the technology. I was skeptical at
first until I tried it too but the productivity gains just cant be
measured valuable enough.

That’s great! So glad to hear of yet another .net-to-rails success
story! Feel free to contact me off-list anytime with progress on the
ruby-with-activedirectory integration.

Jeff

web: purpleworkshops.com
book: pragprog.com/titles/cerailn

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On Nov 6, 10:07 am, Steven Elliott Jr [email protected]
wrote:

Hello,

I have been asked to write an intranet app that deals with certain HR
functionality. It would be awesome to be able to tie into Active
Directory from Rails. Has anyone ever done this before? If so, what
did you use and like/dislike about it.

Thanks

Steven Elliott Jr

I’ve only used raw LDAP integration, but it seems ActiveDirectory-
specific support was attempted here:
http://activedirectory.rubyforge.org/

I’m not sure how up to date/maintained it is, and if you try it I’d be
interested to know how well it works.

Jeff

purpleworkshops.com