If that's better for you, then goodluck! Ask away if you need any help. :)

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Colm <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for the reply but given my newness to rails I'll quite happily
> make changes to the local db and then "heroku db:push" them up to
> heroku.
> What I think I'll do is generate a sale and manually encrypt each of
> the passwords using SHA1, maybe even a web-based one like
> http://www.tech-faq.com/sha-1-generator.shtml
> The user model shows that I'd use the following "Digest::SHA1.hexdigest
> ("--#{salt}--#{password}--")" for generating the encrypted password.
> Quite cumbersome, but I think its simple enough, and needs little
> coding ability so I might just get there.
>
> Regards / Colm
>
> On Nov 28, 3:25 pm, Jim Ruther Nill <[email protected]> wrote:
> > you can use the manage_fixtures plugin to move all your db table entries
> to
> > the deployed one.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Colm <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> >
> > > I finally got a CE site working on heroku by taking the unglorious
> > > route of copying an existing heroku CE based site. THe glorious
> > > results can be seen onhttp://ttennis.heroku.com, nothing to write
> > > home about yet.
> >
> > > Since I plan to move a mailing list with ~100 users to CE, I'd like to
> > > know if anyone has any tips on how to batch add users ? I know that if
> > > I go the route of e-mailing users inviting them to sign up that it'll
> > > take months for all of them to do so, thats just how it works. I was
> > > hoping to populate the sqlite database locally using user data I
> > > already have and then upload to heroku. The plan would be that user
> > > [email protected] would be given the default password jack394 and then
> > > would be invited to change it on his first access. Far from perfect
> > > security, but if anyone has any netter ideas, I'm all ears (or eyes to
> > > be exact).
> > > Secondly, when I look at the users table in the database, I see there
> > > is a crytped_password and a salt. My understanding is that the salt is
> > > generated and used to generate the encrypted password. If that is so,
> > > then I should be good to generate a salt and encrypted password for
> > > the list of users. Any advice on an easy way to do this as a batch
> > > would be appreciated, but I'm sure it will be an enjoyable learning
> > > experience.
> >
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Colm
> >
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