Ah yes thank you. Probably would have bumped into that. I suppose i can get around this pretty easily by doing restful_authentication generation with "siteuser" rather than "user".
I think this is still poignant and should avoid issue. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Radiant] User Registration for a School > Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:26:56 -0400 > > If restful authentication works for you, it should be fine. You'll > just need to make sure that any of the methods for authentication > don't overlap. > http://github.com/radiant/radiant/blob/69cdd08d287199810fa515c04a3563e26acfb11c/lib/login_system.rb > > Jim Gay > http://www.saturnflyer.com > > > > On Jun 21, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Merk S wrote: > > > > > Jim, thanks a lot for your input. > > > > I'm considering restful-authentication -- do you think using > > something like that (or authlogic) is overkill or might cause > > problems? > > > > I do like the fact that out of the box RA supports roles and states :) > > > > thanks again jim. > > > >> From: [email protected] > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [Radiant] User Registration for a School > >> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:15:36 -0400 > >> > >> On Jun 20, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Merk S wrote: > >> > >>> Dear Radiant Folks,I am working on a website for a martial arts > >>> studio where families/guardians register their children for > >>> classes. By hacking on a fork of the fantastic > >>> simple_product_manager extension > >>> (http://github.com/rubymn-f1/radiant-simple-product-manager/tree/master > >>> ) I've been able to account for all of the classes and such. > >>> > >>> I am now at the point where I'm trying to implement a user system to > >>> manage families, and their children, aka the students enrolled in > >>> Karate classes. These students all have different attributes that I > >>> would assume could just be part of a "profile" and they belong to a > >>> primary care giver who could also be referred to as their "Family". > >>> > >>> I am wondering if anyone has some suggestions for how I might do > >>> this? > >>> > >>> I have thought about the following options: > >>> - Extend Radiant's User model and some how support users belonging > >>> to each other. i.e. a Parent user might own a child user > >>> - Create a parallel and super simple user system separate from > >>> Radiant's users > >>> - Use something like Spanner's reader extension: > >>> http://github.com/spanner/radiant-reader-extension/tree/master > >>> in combination with Spanner's reader_group extension: > >>> http://github.com/spanner/radiant-reader_group-extension/tree/master > >>> . Group could be the Parental/Guardian and "reader" could be the > >>> student > >>> - Give up ( jk :) ) > >>> > >>> Thank you for reading this huge post. > >> > >> I haven't looked closely at the extensions out there for member > >> management. I believe that a common approach is to just piggy-back on > >> the existing users, but personally I would not do that. The purpose > >> of > >> Radiant's users and your extra users are different enough that they > >> make sense being separate, and you'd also control that better by > >> rolling your own authentication scheme. I think Ba does this > >> (http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/ba/tree/master > >> ) > >> > >> I don't think that gives you an answer, but that's my opinion. > >> > >> -Jim > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Radiant mailing list > >> Post: [email protected] > >> Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > >> Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. > > http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009_______________________________________________ > > Radiant mailing list > > Post: [email protected] > > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009_______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
