I've run into this situation - recently had a client that stated during the initial development that 'Users can only ever have one role'. So I used STI for all the user types; in addition to permission differences, each role had different associations and sitewide navigation.
THEN, the client says, "Well, some people can be more than one thing"... I ended up using a hackish solution where users get stored with their role as part of their email; ie a user with multiple roles would have two records in the DB: - [email protected] - [email protected] Then the login screen and the user models were tweaked so that [email protected] has a consistent set of profile details and password hash/salt, and could log in as just [email protected]. Finally, I added a role select screen so that, in this example, bob could switch between admin and candidate. I'm not suggesting that this is the best solution, merely a possible one. It was good for my app because the different user types see totally different navigation structures. --Matt Jones On Feb 20, 12:13 pm, Mrkris Mrkris <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave S wrote: > > I've used restful_authentication and role_requirement for a similar > > situation. It's easy to setup, and should allow you to do all the > > stuff you want. As far as the associations you speak of, you probably > > to setup some different find methods with_scope. Check out the > > following links for more info... > > >http://github.com/timcharper/role_requirement > >http://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication > >http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M002256 > > > On Feb 20, 1:02 am, Mrkris Mrkris <[email protected]> > > Yeah, I love role_requirement, been using it for a while. I guess I'll > just stick with it instead of STI. > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
