Just for the record I installed and setup restful_authentication with no problems.
Persevere with git. It seems strange at first if you have been used to svn but after a while you will wonder how you managed without it. Particularly if you use it on your own projects. Colin 2009/4/3 Jeff Schwab <j...@schwabcenter.com> > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
