[Rails] Re: Valid hashed passwords

2009-05-01 Thread Robert Walker
Gavin Morrice wrote: Hey all - just wanted to check if I'm going about this in the right way... I have class User, user has a password Password should only be valid if it's between 6 and 16 chars in length. Fist of all, don't limit the length of a user's password. At least not down to

[Rails] Re: Valid hashed passwords

2009-05-01 Thread Brendon
Don't store the plain text and the hashed password in the same column. Create the methods for the plain text password in your model and store the hashed (and salted and stretched I hope) value in the database. Then fix your validation, since the model should be checking the password before

[Rails] Re: Valid hashed passwords

2009-05-01 Thread Gavin
Gottit - thank you both for clearing that up --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from