Nifty_authentication is a generator to generate the files needed to
use authlogic in a rails app. Not to be confused with what the gem
does. It takes the place of building the User, session and adds some
helper methods. Run script/generate nifty_authentication --help to see
what it does.
On Nov 17, 6:33 pm, AlwaysCharging
<goodg...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> Authlogic seems to be defacto now for authentication, but I was
> wondering how it compares to nifty_authentication.
>
> The nifty_authentication generator does make it easy to use it along
> with Authlogic (configure the gem, then script/generate
> nifty_authentication -authlogic, I believe), but I was wondering why
> one would want to use both. Nifty_authentication states, "This is
> similar to restful_authentication, but simpler." Well, isn''t
that
> goal of Authlogic as well? I''m sure they''re two
solutions to the same
> problem, but just wondered why I''d want to use Authlogic as well.
>
> Nifty_authentication does generate a lot of the validations as well,
> so I see it''s benefit, but why use Authlogic as well?
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