Thanks for all the responses!
I'm working from within a world of code I don't understand well.
After an extremely rich learning experience, I discovered that I could seed
the user database from the console with:

User.new(:login => 'admin', :email => 'admin', :password => 'mypswd',
:password_confirmation => 'mypswd').save

This worked to give me access while maintaining the existing password
system.

I also tried Heroku's suggestion of making a database.yml, but stumbled on
the rake db:data:dump, command, but rake said it didn't know how to build
the task.  That would be really useful as a way of getting all the documents
I've got out of the local database and onto Heroku.

In any event, I learned about authentication, git, console, and others on
the way.

Thanks to all!



On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Keenan Brock <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> If you put those methods into your model, the rails console acts as
> your admin interface. There you can create some logins.
>
> You can also use migrations to create those users for you. It would be
> the same code, just one would be run manually and the other
> automatically.
>
> Dave Thomas said the pragmatic programmer book store only had a
> console admin interface for years. Not sure if hey have even added a
> web admin interface.
>
> You can access the console as an option in the lower left corner of
> the edit interface
>
> Hope that helps
> Keenan
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:55 PM, HazardJ <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Heroku is really great.  So good that I was able to upload and get my
> > application working, though I'm very, very inexperienced.  Bravo.
> > I've got a problem that escapes me -- when I reinstalled the app
> > (tarballed upload) my login _within_the_app (SessionsController) won't
> > let me log in anymore.  It doesn't like any of the user / password
> > combinations.
> > The /session page comes up but I go into a samsara of login where it
> > gently declines to accept any of my user/password combinations.
> > As I was uploading the many different times, I did get some kind of
> > error a few times.  But others were smooth, including the most
> > recent.
> >
> > Tests I've done so far:
> > I've checked the original on my computer (0.0.0.0:3000).  It works
> > fine.
> > I've tarballed in tar.gz (both with log and tmp and without) and
> > in .zip any number of times.  No luck.
> > I'm used to making mistakes and have tried it over and again.
> > The files seem to all be there, including the sqlite3 file.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> > Thanks, James
> > >
>
> >
>


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