Walter Davis wrote in post #956070: > On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Leonel *.* wrote: > >>> Your Accounts will have usernames and e-mail addresses? Why? >>> Those properly belong to Users. >>> >>> Am I misunderstanding? >> Yes, a little bit :P Like I said above... >> "The user that signs up and creates the account is the admin user for >> the >> account. Then, he can send email invitations to his staff (users) to >> also use the application." > > You really want to use Devise and Devise Invitable for this. You just > described the last site I built with this combination EXACTLY, and the > one before that almost the same (restricted invitations to members of > the Sales team). There is one User model, with Devise and Invitable in > it. Practices (it's a medical device site) are validated to have a > unique name. The first User to register a Practice becomes its owner, > and can then access the invitation page to send keys to other people > by entering their e-mail address. But I didn't have to make any extra > controllers for this, just follow the fall-line of the Devise and > invitable instructions. When I wanted additional fields in my > database, I just rolled a new migration and modified the views. > Everything else was taken care of for me.
Awesome! Thanks, I was actually watching the Railscast when I noticed I had an email notification of a forum post. So Devise will help me not only for authentication (logging in) but also on forms that CREATE ACCOUNTS and users???? -- Posted via http://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.
