- Implement AccountActivationsController for activation logic
- Create UserMailer for sending activation emails
- Update SessionsController to handle unactivated users
- Modify UsersController to restrict access to activated users
- Add activation fields to User model and database migration
- Create views for account activation emails
- Add tests for account activation functionality
- Update store_location method to handle HEAD requests
- Ensure session forwarding URL is set for both GET and HEAD requests
This change enhances the session management by allowing the
application to store the original URL for HEAD requests,
which is useful for certain types of HTTP interactions.
- Implement friendly forwarding for user login
- Add correct_user method to ensure users can only edit their own profiles
- Update sessions_controller to handle forwarding URL
- Enhance user controller tests to verify redirection for unauthorized access
These changes improve user experience by allowing users to be redirected
back to their intended page after logging in. Additionally, the new
correct_user method enhances security by preventing users from editing
other users' profiles, ensuring proper authorization checks are in place.
- Implement remember me checkbox in login form
- Update sessions controller to handle remember me logic
- Enhance session management to prevent session hijacking
- Add tests for remember me functionality
This commit introduces a "Remember me" feature that allows users to
stay logged in across sessions. It includes updates to the login
form, session handling in the controller, and additional tests to
ensure the functionality works as expected. The changes also
improve security by validating session tokens to prevent session
hijacking.
- Implement remember method in User model to generate and store a remember token
- Update SessionsController to call remember on successful login
- Enhance current_user method to retrieve user from cookies if session is not present
- Add forget method to clear remember token on logout
- Create migration to add remember_digest column to users table
- Update session creation to use safe navigation operator
- Implement log_out method in SessionsHelper
- Add session reset and login on user creation
- Improve user login tests for better coverage
These changes improve the user session management by ensuring
that the session is handled more safely and efficiently. The
addition of the log_out method centralizes session termination,
while the updated tests ensure that both login and logout
functionality are thoroughly validated.
