Here we dive deeper into Devise by customizing how the views, routing, validations, and authentication works.
In this series, I attempt to recreate a twitter style application called 'Flitter'. In this installment, I show you how to create an authenticated system easily using existing tools. I also show how to generate test data to simulate an active application. Finally, you will learn how to set up self-referencial associations.
Learn how to apply OpenID to an existing Authlogic setup as I show in this episode. This builds upon the app from episode 160.
Kevin Clark gives us a brief overview of two of Rick Olson’s authentication plugins: acts_as_authenticated and restful_authentication.
The final piece of the administration puzzle: authentication. There are many different approaches which is why I saved this step for last. This episode will cover a few techniques including the simple solution used for this site.
Need multiple user authentication? If so, the restful_authentication plugin is a great way to go. It will generate some basic authentication code for you which is good starting point to your authentication system. Watch this episode for details.
Ever wonder how to implement OpenID authentication in your Rails app? This episode will show you how to add it to a site with an existing authentication system.
Rails 2.0 offers an extremely easy way to do HTTP basic authentication. See how in this episode.
See how to handle authentication and custom actions using ActiveResource in this episode.