User authentication support for Rails, NOT authorization

Question

Which authentication plugin for Rails would you choose? I'm not interested in the permissions, roles and other authorization stuff.

I'm interested in the:

• user model/controllers generation
• predefined components to support various ways of authentication (HTML form, OpenID) with various back-end (database, LDAP, textfile).

I'm looking for something similar to the Java Spring Security (formerly Acegi) but for Rails platform.

Kind regards.

Answer 1

Ruby Toolbox provides a nice list of Rails Authentication plugins.

I used restful_authentication in the past but I switched to authlogic 1 year ago. Authlogic is an excellent and high customizable plugin, there are also additional third party plugins to support OpenID and Facebook logins.

I heard good words about Clearance but I never used it.

Answer 2

Check out Authlogic. It's incredibly flexible and simple to get started.

Other options:

Clearance

Devise (Rack-based)