Hi! Thanks for your help. I took the Devise route, it was a bit of hassle but it works now.
Thanks // Anders On 31 Okt, 23:09, Peter De Berdt <peter.de.be...@pandora.be> wrote: > On 31 Oct 2010, at 22:52, Colin Law wrote: > > > > > > >> I'm working on my first Rails app and I have a question regarding > >> authentication. I already have authentication for signing up, logging > >> in, logging out, etc. What I need is an account email activation > >> function and a reset password (forgot password) function. I have read > >> a little bit about Devise and watched the Railscast episodes on it, > >> it > >> seems nice, but is it possible to add just the functions I mentioned? > >> And do I need to change a lot in my current models to do it? Or is it > >> easier to do it manually? > > >> From the Devise documentation at github > >> (http://github.com/plataformatec/devise): > > >> It’s composed of 12 modules: > > >> ... > >> • Confirmable: sends emails with confirmation instructions and > >> verifies > >> whether an account is already confirmed during sign in. > >> • Recoverable: resets the user password and sends reset instructions. > >> ... > >> So you'll need to add "confirmable" and "recoverable" to your devise > >> settings and then add several fields to the existing database tables: > >> confirmation_token, confirmed_at, confirmation_sent_at > >> and > >> reset_password_token > >> All of this is just a matter of quickly reading through the Devise > >> source > >> code and the docs on github. It's there in plain sight. > > > I may be misinterpreting the original post, but I suspect he is not > > actually using Devise at the moment. > > Ah yes, shouldn't be skimming mails this late in the evening :-). > > To the original poster: > > You have two options: > - Replace your current authentication with Devise, which might include > renaming some database columns and customizing the Devise encryption > method to match your current one > - Use the Authlogic or Devise source code as an inspiration and roll > your own. > > It all depends on your current authentication to be honest. > > Best regards > > Peter De Berdt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
