So in my ruby app I'm using devise and I'd like to have for the admins the ability to log as another user to assist them when they call for support.
But I've no idea how I should do it.
what u are trying to do is to impersonate another user. i havent used this but u can check it out https://github.com/engineyard/user_impersonate
You can try using the Pretender gem.
Pretender is flexible and lightweight - less than 60 lines of code.
Works with many authentication systems including Devise, Authlogic, and Sorcery.
devise_masquerade is well worth a look if you're using Devise.
It does everything you might expect and is quite customizable. It even handles having different model classes for users and admins (e.g. User and AdminUser).
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I have a rails project that's using both Spree and Refinery together. In order to have uniform authentication, the Spree.user_class has been set to Refinery's User class. I'm now looking to have another user_class through Spree for customers, one that won't have authentication into Refinery.
Is this even possible or would I be wasting time even looking?
Just in case anyone was wondering - the answer is no. The solution I'm going with is to just keep using Refinery's User class, assign roles and ensure that - in the case that a customer stumbles across /refinery - customers are just routed with Spree authentication.
I'm using Ruby and the Savon gem to interact with SOAP/WS and would like to auto-generate the client request methods from the WSDL in Ruby.
Before I do this, I'd like to know if there's any other Ruby/SOAP library that does this?
Edit: Please note, I already know this isn't available in Savon out the box, in fact my intention is to add in the feature, I'm in the process checking if this exists somewhere else written in Ruby.
Since it's only few days since you asked this question, and I've run into same problem I've decided to create small script to do that.
Download - save as objects.rb for example and run with _bunde exec objects.rb path_to.wsdl_
https://gist.github.com/4622792
Let me know if it works ^^
Take a look at Savon's spec, it has pretty rich testing environment
I think ads_common by Google is relevant to you.
google-api-ads-ruby/ads_common at master ยท googleads/google-api-ads-ruby
rake generate can create the client libraries automatically from WSDL.
It is specialized for Google Ads, but this notion would be helpful to create a versatile client library automatically from WSDL in Ruby.
I have a few Ruby scripts that process text files in different ways, that many of my friends find useful. However, most of the people I know are not comfortable running scripts on the command line. The easiest thing for them would be to create a simple webpage where people could upload a file, select a few options, have it processed, and then download the result.
I know it wouldn't be too hard to build something like this in Rails or Merb or something like that, however it seems like a very common problem, so I was wondering if there was already some kind of template, or similar application that I could easily modify, i.e. let the user upload a file, choose a few options, then {fill in code to do something with file}, let the user download the resulting file?
In the past I used Carrierwave to upload user avatars.
If you are used to Rails it's really straightforward.
Let it be a TextFile resource:
gem 'carrierwave'
$ rails g scaffold textfile content:string title:string etc etc
$ rails g uploader textfile
class TextFile < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accesible :content
mount_uploader :content, TextFileUploader
end
And that is is pretty much all you have to do to obtain the app's skeleton. However, to answer your real question, no, I don't think there is already a rails app that does exactly that.
https://github.com/jnicklas/carrierwave
I found sinatra-fileupload, which pretty perfectly answers my question. It's a very minimalistic framework which works perfectly, I can just plug in the file handling, and change the layout etc a bit. There were many examples of sophisticated Rails plugins linked to databases, with versioning and stuff, but I really wanted the most minimal example.
I want to integrate chargify to my rails app. I have user object and I want the user to be able to subscribe for one month and update the boolean column on user object. I prefer to use the API not hosted pages. How can I do that?
Is there any example for chargify on ruby on rails for handling subscriptions but with details about mvc for newbies?
Based on this thread and the Googles it looks like there is not a whole lot out there.
You could try looking at the Rails 2 example here and converting it or use the gem here (gem "chargify", "~> 0.3.0").
I know none of this is aimed at newbies but the info seems to sparse.
This might get you going. It seems that Chartify itself is written in Rails, and therfore their API is ruby code, which you can use...
I'm working on a Web Service project to provide data to a partner. Our app is really light weight and has only a handful of APIs. Because of time constraint and in-house pre-existing knowledge we went the Spring MVC / Spring Security path to serve those restful APIs.
At any rate this is a B2B project where we are expecting only that partner to hit our servers. So it seems a little over kill to modify are very small db schemas to add tables that would contain only 1 user access record for that partner...
Heard someone say though that it's possible to use an encrypted file, or at least a file where the password information is encrypted, instead of the database to hold the Spring Security user access information... Is that true? If it is can anyone point me to some references? I couldn't find anything relevant on Google at first glance... :(
Thanks.
http://www.mularien.com/blog/2008/07/07/5-minute-guide-to-spring-security/
See the '' under the authentication-provider; this allows you to use encrypted passwords (use sha). If you only have a single user and you wanted the information in an external file, then you could use a property file configuration placeholder to simply specify
${user.1.id} ${user.1.passwordenc},etc... kinda hacky, but it would work.
It's VERY possible. In fact, you can do it without coding; it's pretty simple to include the credentials directly in the XML defining the Spring Security stuff. You usually see this in examples, followed by warnings to "DON'T DO IT LIKE THIS!"
If in-house security is no big deal and you're not worried that your developers can see your password (as if they needed it, heh!) and no one else is likely to access your configuration files, then this is a quick and easy yet workable solution.
I'm going to post this, but I'm off to go dig in the Spring Security documentation for the example I was talking about I'll be back!
Update
Trever Schick was a bit faster with the example. I had a different example in mind but his code shows exactly what I was talking about. You define your security provider in the XML and provide user ID/password right there. There are a number of utilities available on the 'net for you to MD5 or SHA encode your password for you so you can cut and paste it into the file.
You need to implement a new org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetailsService that reads the user's information (username, password, enabled flag, and authorities) from a file. I don't know if someone already implemented it.