====Ruby ActiveLDAP====

I'm currently playing with Ruby, Rails because I try to write a little
RoR application as a frontend of the GUSES's LDAP Directory. Few days ago,
I search for ruby and ldap, and find an ActiveRecord like for LDAP, named
[[http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-activeldap/|ActiveLDAP]].
It's really nice, ActiveLDAP maps a LDAP to a ruby object, which is
schema's aware. It's now very simple to create, query a LDAP directory.

Here a little example which search for all users in ou=People and display
their name.

<code ruby>

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'activeldap'

pwb = Proc.new {
    "secret"
}

class Membre < ActiveLDAP::Base
   ldap_mapping   :dnattr => "uid",
                  :classes => [ "top" , "person", "organizationalPerson", "inetOrgPerson" ],
                  :prefix => "ou=People"
end

ActiveLDAP::Base.connect(
   :user => "admin",
   :password_block => pwb,
   :bind_format => "cn=%s,dc=asyd,dc=net",
   :base => "dc=asyd,dc=net",
   :port => 389,
   :ldap_scope => 2,
   :host => "localhost" )

membres = Membre.find_all(:attribute => "objectClass", :objects => true, :value => "person")

membres.each do |membre|
   puts membre.cn
end
</code>

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