Could you please recommend tutorials on developing one's own authentication mechanisms, without the use of industrial-strength plugins?
Is this tutorial from 2006 obsolete? http://www.aidanf.net/rails_user_authentication_tutorial I spent several person-days trying to install and use restful_authentication, but it was mostly a frustrating, labor-intensive exercise in futility. [1, 2] I then found this prescient article by David Heinemeier Hansson from 2005: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2005/11/11/why-engines-and-components-are-not-evil-but-distracting/ I don't share his philosophical issues with pluggable engines, but in practice, he seems to have been spot on. Impressive! [1] The current issues are FixtureClassNotFound errors in the out-of-the-box unit tests on Debian; I've tried Ruby 1.87 and 1.9.1, each with two variations of restful-authentication: http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/restful_authentication/ http://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication/tree/master (Why are those different, anyway?) FWIW, after some minor bug-fixing, the plugin works fine on Mac OS X. [2] I've also had headaches with git, which has a steep learning curve, no matter how vehemently Linus decrees otherwise. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
