User membership pattern rails

Question

In the .Net world we have the Membership provider, with this we can fully automate user registration and management. Does such a gem exist for the Ruby on Rails community.

I am looking for something that would allow a user to register, retrieve lost password, modify password and login.

Answer 1

Not sure that it has all of the features you want, but I really like restful-authentication.

http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/restful_authentication

Features per website:

Login / logout

Secure password handling

Account activation by validating email

Account approval / disabling by admin

Rudimentary hooks for authorization and access control.

It also makes an appearance in a screen cast over at http://www.buildingwebapps.com/learningrails Episode 11 about adding User Authentication. Watch the others if you are 100% new to rails, but if you just want to see them use the gem, skip to that one.

Answer 2

Take a look at Devise - http://github.com/plataformatec/devise

It's a popular Rails engine for user authentication and should do what you need (and more).

Answer 3

See the answers given to this question recently - again, I would highly recommend Devise and the two railscasts on it, http://railscasts.com/episodes/209-introducing-devise and http://railscasts.com/episodes/210-customizing-devise. Devise handles all the things you described above - from the GitHub page:

• "Confirmable: sends emails with confirmation instructions and verifies whether an account is already confirmed during sign in.
• Recoverable: resets the user password and sends reset instructions.
• Registerable: handles signing up users through a registration process, also allowing them to edit and destroy their account."

Hope that helps!