After a lot of careful research, I've made the decision to go with
Authlogic ( http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic ) for
authentication in my app.
I currently have a User model (which "acts_as_authentic" in
Authlogic). However, my app is going to have multiple user types
("Teacher", "Student", and potentially "Teacher's Assistant"). For the
moment, they'll all be mutually exclusive; a user can't be both a
Teacher's Assistant and a Student, for example.
Currently, I'm planning on creating separate models for each of these
(Teacher, Student, TA). They'll each "belongs_to" a User, and a user
will "has_one" of each. This way, I'll be able to put any common
methods/fields in User, and any exclusive methods/fields in the model
it belongs in.
I'm very new to Ruby (and, by association, to Rails). Does this sound
like a reasonable way to do this? Does it follow "the Ruby/Rails way"?
Or is there a common pattern for doing this in Rails that I don't know
about?
Thank you very much in advance
-Jake
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