On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:13 PM, James Byrne <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Matt Wynne wrote: > > > > > +1 to all that. I feel like you get lectured quite a bit by this list > > James, but you'd do well to heed the advice of some battle-hardened > > journeymen, IMO. > > > > I thought that you might like to know that, after reflecting on this > overnight, I took this matter up in a design meeting today. After a > "frank exchange of ideas" it was accepted that login, and all its > related ilk, did not describe what the application was doing and was > therefore misleading and depreciated. The clincher was when I raised > the issue of authentication via end user x.509 certificates. > > So, what we have now are features that read like this: > > When the user "myuser" authenticates with a password > > When the user is not authenticated > > Then they should see the authentication page > > Then they should see an authentication request message > > Then they press the authenticate button > > When the user session is not current > > We have, in consequence, gone through and removed the term login from > all code use as well; replacing it with authenticate. So, for example, > the authentication form now says: To Proceed Please Authenticate > Yourself > This is awesome. It sounds like you have all come to a better understanding of how the application should behave through the use of more precise language that is shared by everyone. Well done! Aslak > > I am sometimes (ok, mostly) slow to understand what I am told, but I do > hear it. Thanks for all the help on this. I believe that the > discussion here regarding the entire nomenclature issue provided a real > improvement to our design. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > -- Aslak (::)
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