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Making the weight CRUD work per user
In the previous two posts I created a full CRUD, using scaffolding, for weights and a way to get the current user. The weight CRUD, as it was, allowed you to edit data for any user (check out the screenshots). Moving from there to editing data only for yourself was trivial. In the views I…
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Getting the current user
I’m not using any authentication gem or plug in, I’m rolling my own. I’m actually using OpenID, so rolling my own is not hard: no passwords to encrypt, resend and send, no email address to verify. I think this is the future. But I’m also doing something that I call ghost users. When you use…
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Creating the weight model and scaffolding
With one command line I’ve created the weight model and the scaffolding, a fully functional CRUD little app without my Rails app. I know all Rails developer are rolling eyes now; but I still think this is awesome. It gets you up and running so fast: ./script/generate scaffold weight user_id:integer weight:float timestamp:datetime exists app/models/ exists…
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Profile models
The profiles in Sano are built out of two models: User OpenId The reason to have an OpenId model and not just one field in the User model is that I like giving users the possibility of defining more than one OpenId provider. StackOverflow does that and since I use my own OpenId server, the…
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I'm going to do an experiment today
I’ve started learning C# and ASP.NET MVC about 5 or 6 months ago. While learning I’ve developed a clone of Reddit that had a very clear differentiator: you could see the messages and the web page at the same time. When I was close to completion Reddit released exactly that feature. I scrapped that project.…