Double authocetation : how can I do it the best?

Rails
1

Hello,

I have this situation.

I m a volunteer on a toy library and I want to write a financial /
borrow
app for the toy library.

Now I have two seperate roles : staff member and client.

Staff member can log in and put things into the system.

Client is not allowed to do anything in the system.

Now I try to make it work in a sort of ecommerce site, where the
shopping
cart is the place I want to keep track of what the client borrows.

So my staff member logs in, a client comes to the counter to tell that
he
wants to borrow a toy-car.

Then the cart of that client must contains the toy-car.

How can I achieve this with sessions or another way ?

Roelof

2

Hi ,

Instead of implementing it from scratch try to include any ror ecommerce
gems and let it handle the cart and sessions. i personally like the
simplicity of piggybak https://github.com/piggybak/piggybak .

Cheers

3

I can do that but most of the gems I see are working with the fact that
the
person who is logged in is also the person which “owns” the shopping
card.
With me that is not true.
So I try to find a way to resolve that problem.

Roelof

Op dinsdag 23 december 2014 08:33:41 UTC+1 schreef Vivek S.:

4

Roelof,

If im reading this phrase right "a client comes to the counter " , the
end
client does not login right ? Then all you have to do is use the same
ecommerce solution and let your staff “impersonate” your clients .

Look at this GitHub - userimpersonate/user_impersonate2: Allow your support staff to impersonate users to see what they see gem.

5

That could be a solution.

I only have to figure out how I can impersonate a person which is not
logged in and add the toys to the card which is in a session.

Roelof

Op dinsdag 23 december 2014 10:04:25 UTC+1 schreef Vivek S.: