Deprecate authenticates_many

[jaredbeck]

In early 2017, when we discussed our "wishlists", Ben mentioned that
he would like to drop authenticates_many. At that time, I was using
it at work, but I am not using it any longer.

It's a useful feature, but I'd like to see Authlogic "core" do less.

As the message says, if someone wants to extract and maintain a
new gem, that'd be fine. I'd help someone get started with that.

[tiegz]

👍

[josh-m-sharpe]

Does anyone know if this has been extracted elsewhere? A bit of searching hasn't found anything.

[jaredbeck]

As the message says, if someone wants to extract and maintain a
new gem, that'd be fine. I'd help someone get started with that.

Does anyone know if this has been extracted elsewhere? A bit of searching hasn't found anything.

No one has volunteered yet, but my offer to help them get started still stands.

Take a look at Relation.scoping. At work, I was able to replace AuthenticatesMany with a single call to scoping.

[josh-m-sharpe]

Ah, excellent - that seems to have done the trick. Thanks!

[mdchaney]

Take a look at Relation.scoping. At work, I was able to replace AuthenticatesMany with a single call to scoping.

Can you give an example of how you did this? In the old way of doing it, I would find "current_company" based on the domain name, then do something like this:

@user_session = current_company.user_sessions.find

I cannot think of how Relation.scoping would work here.

[josh-m-sharpe]

@mdchaney

Member.where(organization_id: current_org.id).scoping do
  session = MemberSession.new({
    email: params[:email],
    password: params[:password]
  })

  result = session.save

  # do something with result
end

[mdchaney]

I also noticed this:

#644

After independently finding with_scope:

https://www.rubydoc.info/github/binarylogic/authlogic/rails2/Authlogic%2FSession%2FScopes%2FClassMethods%3Awith_scope