Rails - Apr 2006 - Membership Management System Plugin/Gem?

Hi, I''m looking to create an online internet community for managing
user profiles and other data.  Thus, I would need that has the
following features:

o  authentication
    - protect individual member pages/directories

o  session management

o  retrieve and reset passwords

In short, I''m looking to create an online community.  Thus, can
someone direct me to a plugin(s) for completing this task?  Finally,
I''m new to Rails but it seems alot easier than ASP.Net being that I
have a Unix environment to work with and Rails seems to create few
lines of code from what I have experienced.  Gotta go and thanks in
advance.

Peace,

-Conrad

Conrad Taylor wrote:
> Hi, I''m looking to create an online internet community for
managing
> user profiles and other data.  Thus, I would need that has the
> following features:
> 
> o  authentication
>     - protect individual member pages/directories
> 
> o  session management
> 
> o  retrieve and reset passwords
> 
> In short, I''m looking to create an online community.  Thus, can
> someone direct me to a plugin(s) for completing this task?  
Conrad,

The auth_generator gem is excellent from my experience.

http://penso.info/rails/auth_generator/

Though there are a number of other methods disussed on the rails wiki.

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Authentication

Good luck with your project.
Cheers
Tom

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Conrad Taylor wrote:
> Hi, I''m looking to create an online internet community for
managing
> user profiles and other data.  Thus, I would need that has the
> following features:
> 
> o  authentication
>     - protect individual member pages/directories
> 
> o  session management
> 
> o  retrieve and reset passwords
> 
Take a look at OpenID:

http://openid.net

...and at OpenProfile:

http://rtest.openprofile.net

This approach has the advantage, in potential, of letting users sign up 
for many sites with only one password/profile.

--Al Evans

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Since you''re asking on a Rails list and don''t mention
requirements like
integration with other applications outside Rails, I''ll recommend you 
look at  the LoginEngine/UserEngine combo from the rails-engines.org 
site. There are probably at least three or four plugins and add-on 
generators that are at least as robust, though.

As you look at things like this and AuthGenerator, ActiveRBAC and 
others, you''ll want to look through the ddocumentation and see what 
sounds good to you. Maybe more importantly since so much of this, like 
RoR itself, is new, you''ll also want to make note of how actively
it''s
being developed and maintained. For instance, Bruce Perens wrote a 
pretty good plugin for this called ModelSecurity with some very nice 
hooks for controlling access down to the object attribute level, but it 
hasn''t been actively updated in a few months, thew mailing list is an 
echo chamber, and it may well no longer work with new versions of RoR.

In other words, of the solutions that meet your needs, go with one with 
a reasonably active mailing list and that has been updated recently.

Conrad Taylor wrote:
> Hi, I''m looking to create an online internet community for
managing
> user profiles and other data.  Thus, I would need that has the
> following features:
> 
> o  authentication
>     - protect individual member pages/directories
> 
> o  session management
> 
> o  retrieve and reset passwords
> 
> In short, I''m looking to create an online community.  Thus, can
> someone direct me to a plugin(s) for completing this task?  Finally,
> I''m new to Rails but it seems alot easier than ASP.Net being that
I
> have a Unix environment to work with and Rails seems to create few
> lines of code from what I have experienced.  Gotta go and thanks in
> advance.
> 
> Peace,
> 
> -Conrad

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Thanks everyone for you comments.

-Conrad

On 4/4/06, Steve Koppelman <hatlessnyc@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> Since you''re asking on a Rails list and don''t mention
requirements like
> integration with other applications outside Rails, I''ll recommend
you
> look at  the LoginEngine/UserEngine combo from the rails-engines.org
> site. There are probably at least three or four plugins and add-on
> generators that are at least as robust, though.
>
> As you look at things like this and AuthGenerator, ActiveRBAC and
> others, you''ll want to look through the ddocumentation and see
what
> sounds good to you. Maybe more importantly since so much of this, like
> RoR itself, is new, you''ll also want to make note of how actively
it''s
> being developed and maintained. For instance, Bruce Perens wrote a
> pretty good plugin for this called ModelSecurity with some very nice
> hooks for controlling access down to the object attribute level, but it
> hasn''t been actively updated in a few months, thew mailing list is
an
> echo chamber, and it may well no longer work with new versions of RoR.
>
> In other words, of the solutions that meet your needs, go with one with
> a reasonably active mailing list and that has been updated recently.
>
> Conrad Taylor wrote:
> > Hi, I''m looking to create an online internet community for
managing
> > user profiles and other data.  Thus, I would need that has the
> > following features:
> >
> > o  authentication
> >     - protect individual member pages/directories
> >
> > o  session management
> >
> > o  retrieve and reset passwords
> >
> > In short, I''m looking to create an online community.  Thus,
can
> > someone direct me to a plugin(s) for completing this task?  Finally,
> > I''m new to Rails but it seems alot easier than ASP.Net being
that I
> > have a Unix environment to work with and Rails seems to create few
> > lines of code from what I have experienced.  Gotta go and thanks in
> > advance.
> >
> > Peace,
> >
> > -Conrad
>
>
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