Hello,
Can anyone give information on how it would be possible to regulate signups that only people can signup if their email passes swot:
https://github.com/leereilly/swot
It is written in Ruby, just like Discourse.
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The discussion revolves around restricting signups using the swot email verification gem. tpglitch inquires about implementing this feature and pfaffman suggests creating a Discourse plugin to validate email addresses against the swot gem. tpglitch considers modifying swot to be a plugin, but expresses concern due to a lack of Ruby experience. pfaffman confirms that it’s possible to create a plugin with swot as a dependency, but notes that it requires understanding Ruby, Rails, Discourse, and Discourse plugins. tpglitch decides to create the plugin and promises to post an update once it’s complete.
You’d need a plugin that would validate email addresses against that gem. A simple one would do it just when it tried to create the account. A more sophisticated version would do it before it was submitted. I’d guess it’s 1-3 hours work for a seasoned discourse c developer.
See Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin or Marketplace. There’s also a all-the-plugins repo in the github discourse hierarchy that’s a good place to look for examples.
Alright, I’ll look to see if I can modify swot to be a plugin for Discourse.
I’ve never touched ruby, so sorry if I sound dumb, but is it possible to create a plugin and like install swot as a dependency to validate emails against?
Yes. It’s quite possible, but if you want to do it yourself you’ll need to understand, or at least interact with ruby, rails, discourse, and discourse plugins.
It seems like you don’t understand those things. If you’re a developer familiar with other languages, you might get up to speed to write such a plugin in 10 to 40 hours.
If you have money, you can post in Marketplace
I’m working on a plugin for it now, I will post an update here after I get it done & working.