How do I create a point system in a Rails app that assigns points to users and non-authenticated-use
- by codyvbrown
I'm building a question and answer application on top of twitter and I'm hitting some snags because I'm inevitably dealing with two classes of users: authenticated and non-authenticated.
The site enable users to give points to other users, who may or may not be authenticated, and I want to create a site-wide point system where the application stores and displays this information on their profile.
I want to save this point data to the user because that would be faster and more efficient but non-authenticated users aren't in our system, we only have the twitter handle. So instead we display the points in our system like this:
@points = point.all(
:select => "tag, count(*) AS count", # Return tag and count
:group => 'tag', # Group by the tag
:order => "2 desc",
:conditions => {:twitter_handle => params[:username]})
Is there a better way to do this? Is there a better way to associate data with non-authenticated users?
