Rails Authentication In a Gist
I’ve been trying to get some more use onto my github account, and to this end I’ve copied my work on the rails authentication (a rip from Adian’s work, he gets full credit) over to this gist. Basically this is just exactly what Aidan did originally, but in a more cut-and-paste friendly format. I’ve also included a couple of minor fixes to it (ie: preventing the user password from being nuked on save and some other minor changes that were found in the comments on the original blogpost). I also haven’t included any of the tests (bad Alan, I know), but my thought is that you’re going to have your own test system, be it Rspec, Cucumber, or whatever) and putting in some tests there might be counter-productive if you’re already rocking with [insert your testing framework here].
The idea really is just that the next time I need to put in some authentication I don’t have to search as far, or go through as long a page, but can just grab the gist, copy and paste the needed chunks, and go.
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