Hi Daniel - See my reply on the Rails list to this.
Cheers - james On 1/11/06, Daniel Holmlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all, I wanted to give a harty "thank you" to James Adams for > creating rails engines, which seems like a very natural way to increase > codesharing and productivity. > > My question is how have people implemented different types of users in > their Web applications? > > As for my application, I use single table inheritance in order to derive > several different types of users, such as "moderators," "editors," etc > ... > > For example, let's say that I want to create a moderator. I define a new > moderator class and Controller like so: > > class Moderator < User > end > > class ModeratorController < UserController > end > > My problem with this is that since several functions such as "login," > "signup" and others directly call the User class. I cannot simply > inherit the ModeratorController from UserController without overriding > everyone of these functions and changing every instance of "User" with > "Moderator" > > I think there must be a simple and elegant solution to this. Any > suggestions? > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > engine-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org > _______________________________________________ engine-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org
