April 07 2008
Progress towards initial release
Slowly inching towards the end of phase 1 now. Over the weekend I managed to wrap up just about all the remaining login/user interactions in ways I thought were intuitive. For this project I am doing most of this myself, with the help of the RESTful Authentication rails plugin. I did run into one awkward case I should probably check on a little more though. If a user has signed up but not activated their account, and they complete the “forgotten password” form, I need to rework it. I don’t like the way RESTful authentication does this part actually. You cannot reset your password unless you have already activated your account. I’d say whenever someone changes their password also set their activation code to null, making them activated. This is sort of a side effect of changing password, but it makes sense. If soeone can change their password they should meet the conditions for activation as well.