Monday 17 November 2008
More thoughts on Acts As Draftable
I was thinking more about the Acts As Draftable plugin. I have been working on an Italian horror site that has various user levels (admin, vice-admin, contributor, users). Different rules apply when different types of users post content. A contributor article must be a approved by a vice-admin or admin user to get published on the front end, but if the admin is not happy with the article and not ready to publish, that higher level user can, instead of approving, choose to ‘give b... More
Saturday 15 November 2008
Acts As Draftable
Acts as Draftable is a Ruby on Rails plugin written by Rails core contributor Rick Olson (Techno Weenie) that facilitates the creation and modification of records as drafts before committing the changes to the database. It works its magic with the help of a secondary table that mimics the main one -- containing the draftable fields and a foreign key field to link it to your actual table. This is a great tool if you want to review and then approve a post before publishing it. ... More