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.