Managing Application Preferences...?

Rails
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Hi All,

I’m looking to manage a few system preferences that are available
only to the administrator – things like “post_expiration”,
“post_max_length”, etc. I was going to create a table and have a one-
to-many relationship, but decided that could get hairy as I’d need
concatenated keys, etc, and I really only want the Admin to have
access to prefs anyway. Anyway, I’ve come across several posts
regarding different mechanisms and I wanted to get yet another opinion
regarding best practices for this.

Thanks in advance.

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Michael Williams wrote:

Hi All,

I’m looking to manage a few system preferences that are available
only to the administrator – things like “post_expiration”,
“post_max_length”, etc. I was going to create a table and have a one-
to-many relationship, but decided that could get hairy as I’d need
concatenated keys, etc, and I really only want the Admin to have
access to prefs anyway. Anyway, I’ve come across several posts
regarding different mechanisms and I wanted to get yet another opinion
regarding best practices for this.

Thanks in advance.

I store those defaults in a table maintained with a standard controller
and views, then limit access with a before filter in the controller that
checks for admin role/status. The links to those forms are on an admin
menu that shows up along with the standard menu if the user has admin
role.