Ruby on Rails™ Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, Second Edition

Chapter 6. Modeling Users

In Chapter 5, we ended with a stub page for creating new users (Section 5.4); over the course of the next four chapters, we’ll fulfill the promise implicit in this incipient signup page. The first critical step is to create a data model for users of our site, together with a way to store that data. In Chapter 7, we’ll give users the ability to sign up for our site and create a user profile page. Once users can sign up, we’ll let them sign in and sign out as well (Chapter 8), and in Chapter 9 (Section 9.2.1) we’ll learn how to protect pages from improper access. Taken together, the material in Chapter 6 through Chapter 9 develops a full Rails login and authentication system. As you may know, there are various pre-built ...