Do you know if anyone has swapped out the authlogic component for devise in
refinery?  We need to use our own custom authentication.

Cheers
Daniel

On 30 November 2010 10:26, Daniel N <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 30 November 2010 07:18, parndt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > An easy call to make about whether or not you can use something like
>> > RefineryCMS is (a) are you handling a straightforward CMS site (e.g. a
>> > 'brochure site'), without a lot of customisation required for your
>> > content objects and (b) do you need to integrate with other APIs or
>> > systems and how well can the CMS handle it (does it insist on having a
>> > db table called 'Users', even though your shopping cart engine/plugin
>> > will want to mandate the same table with differently named columns,
>> > etc.).
>>
>> RefineryCMS can handle both straightforward sites and complex sites
>> because it's just built on Rails. What I mean by this is that if want
>> something custom then you can just add it in using an Engine or just
>> change the way the source code itself works. It is by no means a black
>> box system.  We're even working on making it easy to just include the
>> RefineryCMS gem in your Gemfile, run our migrations and that's it
>> (work in progress).
>>
>> So, a) Doesn't matter for Refinery CMS and b) you can change any of
>> the table's names using set_table_name 'something_else' by modifying
>> the model using this approach:
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4018701/augmenting-a-model-from-an-external-gem/4019091#4019091
>> or by copying the model file into app/models and doing it there.  So
>> while we call it a "CMS" it is infact a pretty flexible system that
>> provides content management abilities to your Rails application which
>> may be a very complex system or one with specialised needs.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>>
>  Refinery does look pretty nice, I think I'll give it a go :D
>
> Thanks
> Daniel
>

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