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Dr Nic » One App, One User Account and Multiple OpenIDs

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Summary: Its the future, and its not Facebook. Learn it.
I’ve just implemented OpenID sign-ons for a client site, as a compliment for the standard signup/login process, and I choose the following association:
1 x…

Covered by:simonwillison.net

RailsRumble hates OpenID

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There are 146 RailsRumble entrants.

%w[rubygems hpricot open-uri].each { |l| require l }
(Hpricot(open("http://vote.railsrumble.com"))/"div.app_summary").size # => 146

I’ve viewed a dozen or…

map_by_method now works with ActiveRecord associations

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I was always annoyed that map_by_method was broken for ActiveRecord has_many associations. 6 mths later I finally fixed it.
That’s the magic of Open Source Software. [/end sarcasm]
So now, the following example works…

Dr Nic :: Sample Rails app: multi-OpenIDs per user

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Last time, on “Dr Nic loves OpenID”…

Dr Nic had watched a video by Simon Willison glorifying the delights of OpenID to some Googlers.
Dr Nic decided that each User might like to lin…

Magic Wiggly Lines => GuessMethod, by Chris Shea

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If you ever make time to code just for pleasure, then method_missing and const_missing are just begging for abuse.
Chris Shea has come up with GuessMethod - a very cool hack that now deprecates my concept of Magic…