Can we use refinerycms for user authentication purpose - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

Am developing one website for which I have to do user login and registration form for the authentication purpose. My question is can we do this using only refinerycms and if it is possible please tell me how to do this. If it is not possible then please tell me which is the best approach. Am trying to implement user authentication using refinerycms. Am new to refinerycms.

Answer 1

Refinery uses devise so you can use that as well. You can create a model that might look something like this:
module Refinery
module Partners
class Partner < Refinery::Core::BaseModel
self.table_name = 'refinery_partners'
acts_as_indexed :fields => [:name]
validates :email, :presence => true, :uniqueness => true
#devise methods
devise :database_authenticatable, :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable,:validatable, :authentication_keys => [:email]
end
end
end
and not to forget the migration:
class CreatePartnersPartners < ActiveRecord::Migration
def up
create_table :refinery_partners do |t|
t.string :email
t.string :name
## Database authenticatable
t.string :encrypted_password, :null => false, :default => ""
## Recoverable
t.string :reset_password_token
t.datetime :reset_password_sent_at
## Rememberable
t.datetime :remember_created_at
## Trackable
t.integer :sign_in_count, :default => 0
t.datetime :current_sign_in_at
t.datetime :last_sign_in_at
t.string :current_sign_in_ip
t.string :last_sign_in_ip
t.timestamps
end
end
def down
if defined?(::Refinery::UserPlugin)
::Refinery::UserPlugin.destroy_all({:name => "refinerycms-partners"})
end
if defined?(::Refinery::Page)
::Refinery::Page.delete_all({:link_url => "/partners/partners"})
end
drop_table :refinery_partners
end
end
This should create the basic model that you can use. To finish up, change the routes.rb in your extension to add devise routes:
devise_for :partners, :class_name => "Refinery::Partners::Partner",
:controllers => {:sessions => 'refinery/partners/sessions', :passwords => 'refinery/partners/passwords'}
and override refinery/partners/passwords_controller.rb
module Refinery
module Partners
class PasswordsController < Devise::PasswordsController
end
end
end
and refinery/partners/sessions_controller.rb
module Refinery
module Partners
class SessionsController < Devise::SessionsController
end
end
end
now you should have everything you need