Ralph Shnelvar wrote: > This is not a question but a mini-report to others who might be in my > boat. > > My application needed/needs the ability to authenticate a login via > email. > > There are Restful Authorization examples that claim to do this ... but I > have not been able to successfully get it to work. I can get the email > send out and the email responded to, but the sample code I trided to > implement do not then "authorize" the user. > > I also tried Authlogic. If there are hooks in there with the state > machine such that an email could be sent out, I could not find it.
You can do this with Authlogic, and I don't believe acts_as_state_machine is necessary. See of the rdoc for the various Authlogic ::Config modules has anything useful. Or you might need to use perishable_token. > > Finally I tried something call Devise ... which sits on top of Warden. > Sample Devise code (with a bit of smtp massaging) pretty much worked > right out of the box. That sample can be found at > http://github.com/plataformatec/devise_example > > Note that the example uses a user's email as a login id. Adding a login > id and "hiding" the email when the user logs in is left as an exercise > to the reader. I went through that exercise and it made me a bit > familiar with the Devise internals. Some of the error messages are in > the code ... others are in yml files. > > It takes some doing to get it all installed. Nonetheless, I recommend > Devise. > > Caution: I'm a newbie to RoR so take my recommendation with a brick of > salt. Then why are you even making it? Seriously, don't give up on Authlogic. It's what most people are using these days. Check out Railscast #160 if you need an overview. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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