That's precisely what I needed and it's done!! Thanks very much. -ants
On 23 November 2010 14:15, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Nov 23, 12:04 pm, Ants Pants <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I was wondering if anyone has had experience of users registering to your > > application and you send an email to the address they provided and they > have > > to click it to complete registration. Standard stuff but how best to do > it? > > > > What should I put in the query string of the link I send? > > > > The session id? I cold always take that from the cookie. > > An encrypted version of the session id? > > Or something else. > > > > Authlogic has the concept of a perishable token. > > http://www.binarylogic.com/2008/11/16/tutorial-reset-passwords-with-authlogic/ > shows how to use this to do password resets, which from this point of > view is practically the same as what you're trying to: the important > bit is that users can login via something other than their password, > which is sent by email. Even if you're not using authlogic you may be > able to draw some inspiration from it > > Fred > > How have you tackled this? > > > > I look forward to your replies. > > > > CIA > > > > -Ants > > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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.
