Open Id Authentication | AgileWebDevelopment

Open Id Authentication | AgileWebDevelopment #Ruby

Provides a thin wrapper around the excellent ruby-openid gem from JanRain. Be sure to install that first: gem install ruby-openid To understand what OpenID is about and how it works, it helps to read the documentation for lib/openid/consumer.rb from that gem. Prerequisites OpenID authentication uses the session, so be sure that you haven’t turned that off. It also relies on tmp/openids being present in RAILS_ROOT. The install.rb should install that automatically as you get the plugin, but if not, be sure to do that yourself. This particular plugin also relies on the fact that the authentication action allows for both POST and GET operations. If you’re using RESTful authentication, you’ll need to explicitly allow for this in your routes.rb. Example This example is just to meant to demonstrate how you could use OpenID authentication. You’ll might well want to add salted hash...

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