# Company Account with Multiple Users

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/company-account-with-multiple-users/172556>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 23, 2009, 9:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/company-account-with-multiple-users/172556 "2009-07-23T09:44:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![mindpike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@mindpike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mindpike)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 9:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/company-account-with-multiple-users/172556/1 "2009-07-23T09:44:17Z")

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I’m not familiar with Ruby/RoR at the moment but i’m curious if it’s  
possible to setup a login/auth system essentially out of box with RoR  
for access of multiple logins to a single account. Such as 1 company  
account that the company/group registers. They have their own page  
with their info/crud for whatever kind of posting that is going to go  
on. That primary account owner of the company account can then add  
users into that specific account so they’re essentially the same  
account with multiple logins.

If this is something fairly simple are there any tutorials/example  
material of such a setup?

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**Author:** ![mindpike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@mindpike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mindpike)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/company-account-with-multiple-users/172556/2 "2009-07-23T19:06:15Z")

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i think you can check the book

agile web development with rails

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**Author:** ![mindpike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@mindpike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mindpike)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/company-account-with-multiple-users/172556/3 "2009-07-24T05:28:47Z")

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Rails is a framework that you can use to build things that would do  
what you’re after. It’s not an “out of the box” solution, really.  
For something like this, you probably want what’s called a  
“CMS” (Content Management System). I hear Radiant (http://  
[radiantcms.org/](http://radiantcms.org/)) is pretty good.

To the best of my knowledge there’s no way to “out of the box” set up  
an authentication system. Plenty of plug-ins exist, but you’d still  
need to create the ActiveRecord models for all the “posts” or “pages”,  
and the controllers for CRUD on said model(s), and then tell the  
controllers to authenticate a user before certain actions (like add,  
edit or delete).