http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/restful_authentication rajan-chandis-macbook-air:~ rajanchandi$ rake db:sessions:create rajan-chandis-macbook-air:~ rajanchandi$ script/plugin install http://railsexpress.de/svn/plugins/sql_session_store/trunk/ rajan-chandis-macbook-air:~ rajanchandi$ script/generate authenticated user sessions --include-activation Regards, Rajan
I was just going through the possible authentication available with RoR. Here is what I found. Authentication Systems Several authentication modules have been written for Rails, but some are better at some things and some are better than others. acts_as_authenticated This should be the prefered authentication plugin. It is easily installed via script/plugin , is easily extendible and can handle all issues of the other authentication modules. Additionally, the testing code is excellent which makes it easy to modify. login_generator login_generator is the original login generator gem written by Tobias Luetke. The downside is that there is a bug which scrambles the password if you save an already existing user. It should not be used for this reason. It is replaced and superceded by acts_as_authenticated. SaltedHashLoginGenerator This was a first attempt at created a salted login generator which could reset passwords and do activation. It has since been extracted into login_...