File: README — Documentation for captain

Gem-Based Admins for Clearance

Do you like movies about gladiators or Clearance-based authentication? If you do, you and Captain Oveur will become fast friends. Captain Oveur adds user-management tools and admin authentication to make flights of web development smoother.

Tested with Rails 2.3.5 and Clearance 0.8.8

Install it as a gem (after installing clearance, cucumber and clearance_features):

gem install captain_oveur

script/generate captain_oveur

for the cucumber features:

script/generate captain_oveur_features

IDEAS

While the installable cucumber features are nice, internal testing with an embedded install of rails, like Clearance, would make revising CaptainOveur cleaner…

First User Should be an Admin

Role-based Authentication (in time for Clearance 1.0 release)

roles table - admin is built-in
user_roles
script/generate captain_oveur_role :content_manager <= add a role to the roles
authentication will use the roles (meta-programmed instance methods for user.rb and authentication.rb)
before_filter :co_admins

NOTE

A lot of this gem looks exactly like clearance. Firstly, I am an unabashed fan of thoughtbot and clearance. Given the problem domain, I also think it was the best way to handle a lot of issues, but I am open to criticism and/or suggestions.