On Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 6:19:18 PM UTC, Mike wrote: > > If you have a robust permissions system, you can also hide or show fields > based on those permissions > > In short I would never use an 'admin' model there is simply no point for > 99% of applications >
I've had a different experience - in one of the apps I work on I regret that users and admins are differentiated only by role. users have attributes that admin's don't need for admin tasks, but validations there mean that admins need to go though that signup process, rather than just email address & password. There are some attributes that only admins need so you end up with columns that are null for 1 million record and set for 5 of them. In general I'd quite like the admin components and consumer facing components to be separate web applications & the shared user accounts are one of the things binding them at the moment. I can see that it's probably not a common case though. Fred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/02055631-0048-4d37-a8bf-f891dd40a023%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
