What authentication plugin/framework do you use?

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Very interested in seeing what you are using and why. We’re trying to choose ourselves, but having trouble coming to a conclusion.

Thanks guys.

Jake

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We looked at several, including roll-your-own (a la Agile book and http://www.aidanf.net/rails_user_authentication_tutorial), and of course, acts_as_authenticated and some of its descendants. Also looked at SaltedHashLoginGenerator.

I really wanted something higher level so I kept looking. Reviewed Writertopia writertopia and Hobo http://hobocentral.net/

All those are interesting possibilities.

But we're converging on Goldberg http://goldberg.240gl.org/

It's a generator not a plugin (maybe eventually...) It seems like a pretty active project, well designed, and 0.2 is promised to come out soon. I've been toying with it and think it'll provide a good foundation for our upcoming project.

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For our app SugarStats.com we initially used auth_generator 2.0 and it worked for a while. It has a lot of very common and useful features (password recovery, built in user icons, built in admin area etc) but it wasn't the best for extending.

We did a huge refactoring and now use restful_authentication (based on acts_as_authenticated) for everything. It has been great and is really easy to extend to your own needs.