Contributors to Selectricity Include: * Benjamin Mako Hill * John Dong * Justin Sharps 07/31/07 jlsharps: I've added a user authentication system known as "acts_as_authenticated" to the code. The plugin is the the vendor/plugins directory. The two most noticeable changes are the AccountController and a redone User model. I've left the UserController in place for now, but the AccountController works in a different manner, so am switching over to that gradually. I saved the 5 lines or so in the old User model, overwrote it with the authenticated generator and then recopied the old stuff back in: has_many :elections and the name() method. The generator also creates its own migration file, but since we are using a create.sql file I adopted the migration file into a new users table in the create.sql file. I have yet to delete the old table because I haven't fully combed through the code yet and determined how many of the old attributes (such as first_name, last_name) may need to be retained. http://technoweenie.stikipad.com/plugins/show/Acts+as+Authenticated is the best site for documentation regarding acts_as_authenticaed. Also, currently it only stores the user_id in the session, but i just found a guide to help me make it store the entire user object, so I'll do that while my battery charges. 08/03/07 Handy trick: use the command 'gem_server' from a shell to create a server at http://localhost:8008 that is an easy to navigate locally-hosted website with all the documentation on local gems you have in a easy to read format. jlsharps: I added the Gruff plug-in today, which is viewable under the folder vender/plugins/gruff. I installed it directly using the Gruff plug-in and included controller generate utility. The version 0.1.2, which doesn't seem to be the latest version. I've looked into it and it see and it seems that the latest version is 0.2.8. However, I wasn't sure how including a gem w/o a plugin would function in end-game rails so I just what I used for now. If you guys (mako of john) know how to do it, it'd probably be better to upgrade, but it didn't seem like the best use of my time right now. I got the plug-in here: http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/gruff. You can get the gruff gem v 0.2.8 by typing "sudo gem install gruff", I believe it's also hosted on RubyForge. I created the GraphsController for Gruff methods to use. In Pollarize I put them in the ApplicationContorller file, so they would be accessible to all. While that it also an option here, it would also mean there wouldn't be much room for playing around because everything in the Application file has to be perfect or it seems to throw Error Code 500 (basically everything breaks). The show() is a sample sample provided with Gruff. Documentation is here:http://gruff.rubyforge.org/ Alternately, if you have the gem installed, you can use the ri command, or the above mentioned gem_server. If you guys want more helpful stuff here, let me know.