Actually I have the Simply Rails 2 book and the Restful_Authentication plugin installed on my app in addition to the open-id.
The problem is adding the unique voting. I'll take a look at adding an extra field. On Oct 22, 9:59 am, Robert Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should also keep in mind that most ISPs use dynamically assigned IP > addresses that can change at any time for the same user. > > I agree that you must be able to identify the person. Cookies are > insufficient. They can be easily cleared by the user. I use Safari, most > of the time, and I reset it often which quickly and conveniently clears > all cookies. > > As another option you could track people by using OpenID if you don't > want to take on the hassles of usernames and passwords. This is what > stackoverflow.com is doing. > > I think OpenID a great idea. But, there is a trade-off there. Setting up > an OpenID initially adds even more complication to the end user than a > username and password. The difference is that it's a one-time > complication. The benefit to the end user is that they don't have to > remember 20 passwords for 20 sites. So they will be able to use their > OpenID on many other sites that support it. And for current OpenID users > it involves much less complication. They only need to enter their OpenID > URL and that's it. All you have to do is validate their OpenID. > > There's a nice OpenID gem "ruby-openid" that should make implement it > fairly painless. > > Bharat Ruparel wrote: > > I think that you want to build in an authentication system first > > (restful_authentication) so that you can reliably identify who the user > > is. After that it is a simple matter of logging a record in a table > > that identifies that a user has voted on a specific word. So always > > check beforehand if a user has voted on a word and then disallow > > repeated voting. > > People move around and identifying a user using just the IP address > > alone is not sufficient in my opinion. > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > > Bharat > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
