Help with User Authentication

[rob]

If you're looking for help on how to authenticate in your Rails apps, check out this execellent tutorial:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowtoAuthenticate

If you prefer to do it through HTTP (where your browser shows the login box), you can use this guide:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowtoAuthenticateWithHTTP

[bluetechnx]

I also have come across this gem that is a login generator which builds some typical scaffolding for login and authentication.

It seems very parrallel to the above links but is mostly contained in a simple gem for usage.

Login & Authentication Generator (http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/LoginGenerator)

There appears to be a few other similar gems floating around. But, I have played around with this one a bit...and have found it useful.

Just my 2 cents.

[steve_d555]

I also have come across this gem that is a login generator which builds some typical scaffolding for login and authentication.

It seems very parrallel to the above links but is mostly contained in a simple gem for usage.

Login & Authentication Generator (http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/LoginGenerator)

There appears to be a few other similar gems floating around. But, I have played around with this one a bit...and have found it useful.

Just my 2 cents.

I use that one. It is very nice and easy way to get logins and authentication.
EDIT: It's also secure, using SHA1 or MD5 for passwords i believe.