Working with rails dot com bug !!

October 25, 2007 · 1 comment

in Rails & Ruby

Working with rails, is an online community and a place for rails guys to meet up and do some great things. Myself been a true RoR follower, am a member of this community.

Recently, I forgot my password and I had to ask for a new password link to be sent to my e-mail address. But when there was no e-mail from wwr for a long time, I decided to check out what the problem was. And I found something really interesting.

See, basically I had created an account earlier at wwr with a particular e-mail address and I joined the community again with the same e-mail id. Why I did so was because I had forgotten my password and the e-mail that I had used for my earlier account. So, I provided the same account and the system happily accepted it without any problems. But, as happens in a lot of cases, the problem generally arises later when a particular scenario is tested, intentionally or unintentionally (as in this case).

Now, the dilemma is, as to when a new password setting link is sent out, then which account should it be sent out to. I think this is some serious mistake on the part of wwr developers, cause it is such a basic thing to check for the uniqueness of any e-mail id during the registration time. Anyways, I hope that the folks at wwr rectify this asap. I know these guys will

:D

Here's are some screenshots btw, in case people think that this is not possible.

This one is when you try searching for me on wwr:

Search page results on wwr 

 

See there are two profiles by my name (not a big thing, is it??!!..), but here are the two profiles(my own), two different accounts with the same e-mail address:

first profile on wwr

profle two on wwr 

 

peace..!!

:) 

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1 Harsh November 17, 2007 at 6:41 am

Hey This is a gr8 dscvry…thats y r a such a gr8 tester..an all time great..

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