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?
>
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