Hello,
I have this situation.
I m a volunteer on a toy library and I want to write a financial / borrow app for the toy library.
Now I have two seperate roles : staff member and client.
Staff member can log in and put things into the system.
Client is not allowed to do anything in the system.
Now I try to make it work in a sort of ecommerce site, where the shopping cart is the place I want to keep track of what the client borrows.
So my staff member logs in, a client comes to the counter to tell that he wants to borrow a toy-car.
Then the cart of that client must contains the toy-car.
How can I achieve this with sessions or another way ?
Roelof
Hi ,
Instead of implementing it from scratch try to include any ror ecommerce gems and let it handle the cart and sessions. i personally like the simplicity of piggybak .
Cheers
I can do that but most of the gems I see are working with the fact that the person who is logged in is also the person which “owns” the shopping card. With me that is not true.
So I try to find a way to resolve that problem.
Roelof
Roelof,
If im reading this phrase right "a client comes to the counter " , the end client does not login right ? Then all you have to do is use the same ecommerce solution and let your staff “impersonate” your clients .
Look at this https://github.com/rcook/user_impersonate2 gem.
That could be a solution.
I only have to figure out how I can impersonate a person which is not logged in and add the toys to the card which is in a session.
Roelof