On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Tomas Doran <bobtf...@bobtfish.net> wrote: > Simon Baird wrote: >> >> [1] Well perhaps some details in brief note form... >> - The Authentication section of the Tutorial in CPAN uses some >> deprecated stuff (I find out eventually) >> - I got Auth working with DBIC as per the docs (with users, roles, >> user_roles tables) but without a realm. So I can use (the deprecated) >> $c->login but $c->authenticate doesn't work... >> - After decided I would give up and just keep using the $c->login I >> tried adding another table to my DBIC Schema. This caused Auth to stop >> working... > > Hi. > > The tutorial on CPAN hasn't used anything deprecated for a _long time_ as > far as I can see. > > It was recently (09th May) switched to use the newer > Catalyst::Authentication::Realm::SimpleDB, as this is easier to setup for > beginners, but previous to that it still used the 'new' authentication > setup. > > Going back to Catalyst-Manual-5.701004 (released 09th April 2008 i.e. over a > year ago), the Authentication section of the tutorial is using the 'new' > authentication method. > > Could you possibly review the latest version of the authentication section > in the tutorial, and send us some feedback about where it should go into > more detail, and what you think is confusing or missing? (Or, if you think > I'm full of lies, and it recommends deprecated things, please point out > where so I can LART myself). > > I appreciate that you seem to be quite frustrated with your experience, but > I'd really like to (a) get you happy so that your app works as expected with > the recommended authentication stuff, (b) get this sorted out so that nobody > else goes down this path in future. > > Thanks in advance. > t0m >
Thanks for the advice. I might start fresh and see if I can pinpoint where things went wrong. Simon. -- simon.ba...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/