Multiple User Types - Michael Hartl's Tutorial

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi all,

Can I have your opinions about the implementation of multiple user types that can login and play in different roles?

What do you think about the answer on stack overflow?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10876059/michael-hartls-rails-tutorial-reusing-sessions-resource-for-multiple-user-type

Thanks,

Erdem

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I would first question the basic premise of multiple user types. Is that really necessary? Can a user every be of both types? Perhaps the requirement is not for different types of users but for users with different roles, meaning that a user can perform the role of a publisher or a subscriber (in the example given) or perhaps even both. In which case the requirement is just for a single user table with something like cancan to provide roles.

Colin

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Hi Colin,

Thanks for your reply. Actually I don’t want each user to have multiple types. Only 1 type per user is ok for me.

I can satisfy that by using polymorphic relations. I have 1 db table for common user attributes(email,name,password) and 2 more tables for the 2 user types(admin,manager)

But I’m confused while implementing the SessionController.

Each user type will have different login and register forms.

Do you think using a single SessionController for the login/logout operations for both user types is fine (with different session keys)?

Thanks,

Erdem