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Sounds good.

I think we could go for both Devise
(http://railscasts.com/episodes/209-introducing-devise) and OmniAuth
(http://railscasts.com/episodes/235-omniauth-part-1). 
The first to replace the self-made login logic and the second to integrate
other authentication services.
Since our admin role is very simple (he can only add/manage other users) a
simple boolean column admin should suffice like it is explained on the wiki
of Device. I do not think something like CanCan is necessary

The problem is that we need to be on rails3 for these gems AFAICS...

And we need a good migration strategy for current Tracks users / sessions
table to the new situation.

Reinier

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Stefan Richter [mailto:[email protected]]
> Verzonden: maandag 20 juni 2011 16:14
> Aan: Reinier Balt
> Onderwerp: RE: [Tracks-discuss] migration and what is next
> 
> I would generally like to allow more external services for authentication,
like
> OpenID and OAuth. In order to achieve that I would probably use OmniAuth.
> As we probably still want to have simple username-password authentication,
> but probably need a major refactoring for the first thing already, I would
also
> "outsource" this to a separate gem like authlogic or devise. Also I would
> recommend on not treating the admin-user any different and therefore also
> look into some general role/rights management (to be honest, I am not
sure,
> what is already there in this field...)
> 
> How does this sound?
> 
> -stefan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reinier Balt [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 3:22 PM
> To: Stefan Richter
> Subject: RE: [Tracks-discuss] migration and what is next
> 
> Sure. But before you start coding, let us discuss direction. Can you tell
me
> what you are thinking about?
> 
> Reinier
> 
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: Stefan Richter [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Verzonden: donderdag 16 juni 2011 14:41
> > Aan: Reinier Balt
> > Onderwerp: Re: [Tracks-discuss] migration and what is next
> >
> > Hi Reinier,
> >
> > concerning the login system, I would really like to improve on that
> > and
> have
> > been thinking about the best solution... would you be ok with me doing
> > some spike into that direction?
> >
> > -stefan
> >
> > Am 14.06.2011 um 16:18 schrieb Reinier Balt:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > First a heads up: I have merged the work of 02strich and myself to
> > > update the act_as_state_machine plugin (AASM). In order to run the
> > > latest master you need to migrate your database
> > >
> > > I have started to "plan" 2.1 and 2.2 in Assembla. My general plan
> > > would be
> > > * I'd like to work on visible functionality in 2.1, like better done
> > > view, better tag selection, etc.
> > > * I'd like to postpone rails3 upgrade until 2.2. Well, actually I'd
> > > like to skip rails 3 and go straight for 3.1 because of the nice
> > > asset pipelining in
> > > 3.1 that will help us clean up the css/js mess
> > >
> > > And of course merge any complete working code that is contributed
> > >
> > > 2.1
> > > ---
> > > I have made a selection of possible tickets for 2.1 of which I
> > > certainly want to do the high priority stuff, i.e. the priority on
> > > the tickets is my personal priority :-) If you like visible stuff to
> > > be considered, let's discuss it here. I'd like to keep the database
> > > changes to a minimum to ease maintenance of 1.7/2.0/2.1, but for 2.2
> > > it may be inevitable to make database changes.
> > >
> > > 2.2
> > > ---
> > > We need to migrate to rails3.x because a lot of gems/plugins are not
> > > (fully) maintained for rails2.x. Unfortunately some gems/plugins
> > > will not work for rails 3 either.
> > >
> > > So for 2.2 I want to drop
> > > * webservices, rely on REST only
> > > * selenium-on-rails (go for cucumber+selenium, possibly replace
> > > webrat)
> > > * resource_feeder (perhaps in 2.1)
> > > * openid and ldap if the plugins do not work on rails3. Perhaps we
> > > may need to migrate the self-made login system to omniauth / devise
> > > to bring the authentications back. This enables us to remove the CAS
> > > code too, since it is supported by omniauth
> > >
> > > The codebase is not in a very good state. The functionality is
> > > working fine, but we have a lot of old code from old rails versions
> > > that can be
> > improved.
> > > Especially the login system and the todos_controller are hard to
> > > maintain, but also the tweaking in the test setup. I am considering
> > > taking these up for 2.2. I did a first pass with the jquery upgrade,
> > > but
> more
> > is needed.
> > >
> > > What do you think about all of this? Do you see different priorities?
> > > Is there a ticket missing in 2.1 or 2.2?
> > >
> > > Reinier
> > >
> > >
> > >
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