Best Solution For Authentication in Ruby on Rails [closed]

Answer 1

AuthLogic appears to be the new kid on the block and seems to be the next evolution of restful_authentication, easier to use, etc

http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic/tree/master

Edit: now that Rails 3 is out, Devise seems to be the new, new kid on the block

https://github.com/plataformatec/devise or I have been rolling my own authentication now with the has_secure_password built in to Rails http://railscasts.com/episodes/250-authentication-from-scratch-revised

Side note: Ruby Toolbox is a great site for finding the current best solution in various categories (based on the number of GitHub watchers):

http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_authentication.html

Answer 2

There's also RestfulOpenIDAuthentication if you want OpenID support in addition to password support.

Answer 3

Just a note, LoginGenerator and SaltedLoginGenerator have been superseded by Restful Authentication and are unsupported on newer Rails releases -- dont waste any time on them, though they were great at the time.

Answer 4

Just updating this: Ryan Bates' Railscast #250 shows building an authentication system from scratch....

Answer 5

I'm really liking thoughtbot's clearance. Very simple and has a few good hooks and is testable.

Answer 6

The plugin restful_authentication and other plugins that extend it, answer your needs perfectly. A quick search on github.com will reveal a lot of tutorials, examples, and extensitons. Just go here:
- http://github.com/search?q=restful_authentication

There are several projects that use restful_authentication just to provide examples of a bare-bones Rails app with just the authentication parts.

1. http://github.com/fudgestudios/bort -- A base rails app featuring: RESTful Authentication
2. http://github.com/mrflip/restful_authentication_example -- Another project with a great examlpe of how to use restful_authentication
3. http://github.com/activefx/restful_authentication_tutorial -- Same as above, with some other plugins bundled.
4. http://railscasts.com/episodes/67-restful-authentication -- a great screencast explaining restful_authentication

This information should be enough to get you started finding heads and tails ... good luck.