On Friday, January 24, 2014 2:34:45 AM UTC+1, Bizt wrote: > > I'm new to Rails but so far I've completed the Rails Tutorial book and > applying that stuff to my first proper app. Later I will tackle > implementing user authentication (sign up, sign in, sign out) > > In the book it demonstrates very well how to sign users up, validate, etc. > Usually in my PHP apps I have a process of allowing the user to signup, > then they are sent a link to confirm their email address, then (from that > link in the email) they can activate their account. In the backend, I use > two tables - user_pending (for users who have signed up, but not yet > activated their account), and user (for activated users). I decided a while > back that I would use two tables as I didn't want the user table to get > bogged down with users who never activate their account. Perhaps this is > not too important, and I'm giving myself more work. >
This does rather sound like premature optimisation to me. > > Anyway could someone perhaps comment on what is the most commonly > practiced technique for activating users - I'm assuming via email > activation as this is what I see most when I sign up for new apps myself. > If I do this process, should I use one table (user - with "activated" flag > column) or two tables (user_pending and user - when users activate, the row > is copied to user). Any comments welcome, especially if their is a newer > better way to perform this process. > > The standard approach is email activation with a single users table. A lot of people use the devise gem for authentication, which has this built in - - you could either just use devise or examine its approach in more detail before rolling your own. Fred > Thank you > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/c269b3aa-ac14-43e9-bc6f-d19340e94db5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
