Put an OpenID and Google Account Login in a Rails Project

Question

Hello,

I'm starting in the Rails world and i want to know how to put an login system like that here in Stack Overflow uses. Thanks, and remember that i'm starting, and if you can post a link to a very good tutorial, is very nice.

Answer 1

You could consider using Authlogic. There is a nice screencast on implementing it (ASCIIcast version available too). Using an OpenID with it seems preety simple, according to the docs:

UserSession.create(:openid_identifier => "identifier", :remember_me => true)