[#1] New Member Invitation

[rstackhouse]

As a site moderator,
I want the ability to invite new users to the site,
So that we all can benefit from the tools/experience of the invited.

[joraff]

Oops, should have read this first before my comment on Issue 1. I still maintain by vote for an invite-only system. That way any new member is 1. hopefully pre-screen by the inviter and 2. encouraged to participate first before getting the invitation.

[rstackhouse]

Spoke to the "customer". He said it should be invite only to mitigate the risk of liability issues. How would you re-write this story?

[joraff]

Did you meant to post this somewhere else?

If not:

As the site moderator/create/administrator, I would sent an invitation to a specific email address. That address would receive a URL with a token in the query string, such as http://whosgotwhat.org/user/new/35346fny3736rh. The token is checked and if valid the user is shown the registration page. The user can then proceed to register as a user of the site.

One way to do this cleanly using an MVC framework would be to create an Invitation model and add self-referential associations to our User model as: Invitee and Inviter. So, in code (ruby), something like:

class Invitation < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :inviter, :class_name => "User"
    belongs_to :invitee, :class_name => "User"
end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :invitations,  :foreign_key => 'inviter_id'
    has_many :invitees,     :through => :invitations
    has_one  :inviter,      :through => :invitations
end

[rstackhouse]

Perhaps the updated issue text/title will communicate better what I was looking for earlier.

[jcarouth]

Task breakdown:

• Create HTML form
• Persist form post
• Send/Email + generate text
• Email Resend
• Confirmation Form