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2 === Depedendencies ============================
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5 To use Selectricity, you'll need to install the following gems in
6 addition to rails and its dependencies:
10 Also, you will need install the other applications:
12 * imagemagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/)
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15 === Contributors to Selectricity Include ======
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18 * Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
19 * John Dong <jdong@ubuntu.com>
20 * Justin Sharps <jlsharps@mit.edu>
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23 === Log =======================================
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27 jlsharps: I've added a user authentication system known as
28 "acts_as_authenticated" to the code. The plugin is the the vendor/plugins
29 directory. The two most noticeable changes are the AccountController and a
30 redone User model. I've left the UserController in place for now, but the
31 AccountController works in a different manner, so am switching over to that
32 gradually. I saved the 5 lines or so in the old User model, overwrote
33 it with the authenticated generator and then recopied the old stuff back in:
34 has_many :elections and the name() method. The generator also creates its own
35 migration file, but since we are using a create.sql file I adopted the
36 migration file into a new users table in the create.sql file. I have yet to
37 delete the old table because I haven't fully combed through the code yet and
38 determined how many of the old attributes (such as first_name, last_name) may
40 http://technoweenie.stikipad.com/plugins/show/Acts+as+Authenticated is the
41 best site for documentation regarding acts_as_authenticaed. Also, currently
42 it only stores the user_id in the session, but i just found a guide to help
43 me make it store the entire user object, so I'll do that while my battery
47 Handy trick: use the command 'gem_server' from a shell to create a server at
48 http://localhost:8008 that is an easy to navigate locally-hosted website with
49 all the documentation on local gems you have in a easy to read format.
51 jlsharps: I added the Gruff plug-in today, which is viewable under the folder
52 vender/plugins/gruff. I installed it directly using the Gruff plug-in and
53 included controller generate utility. The version 0.1.2, which doesn't seem to
54 be the latest version. I've looked into it and it see and it seems that the
55 latest version is 0.2.8. However, I wasn't sure how including a gem w/o a plugin
56 would function in end-game rails so I just what I used for now. If you guys
57 (mako of john) know how to do it, it'd probably be better to upgrade, but it
58 didn't seem like the best use of my time right now. I got the plug-in here:
59 http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/gruff. You can get the gruff gem v 0.2.8 by
60 typing "sudo gem install gruff", I believe it's also hosted on RubyForge.
62 I created the GraphsController for Gruff methods to use. In Pollarize I put them
63 in the ApplicationContorller file, so they would be accessible to all. While
64 that it also an option here, it would also mean there wouldn't be much room for
65 playing around because everything in the Application file has to be perfect or
66 it seems to throw Error Code 500 (basically everything breaks). The show()
67 is a sample sample provided with Gruff.
69 Documentation is here:http://gruff.rubyforge.org/ Alternately, if you have the
70 gem installed, you can use the ri command, or the above mentioned gem_server.
72 If you guys want more helpful stuff here, let me know.