lazy-registration

Lazy Registration on the Web: Best Practices

I first encountered the concept of lazy registration the Ajax Patterns site, where they define it as accumulating "bits of information about the user as they interact, with formal registration occurring later on." I'm looking at doing something similar for my website, but I'd like to know a little bit more about best practices before I s...

How would one implement this sort of gradual engagement/lazy registration in Rails?

A long time ago I ran into a website (I unfortunately lost the address, it was some kind of newspaper site) that allowed you to make use of everything as if you were a registered user. You could rate, favorite and comment articles, and when you did it would display a discreet, embedded message saying you had to register to the website fo...