OpenID authentication in Ruby on Rails

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martinatime picture martinatime · Aug 16, 2008 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

What is current state of the art for enabling OpenID login in Ruby on Rails applications? This is a community wiki with up-to-date answers to this question.

Authlogic

The most advanced authentication solution seems to be Authlogic. It supports OpenID with Authlogic OpenID plugin. It supports Rails 4 and 3. Rails 2 is supported in the rails2 branch.

You may want to watch "OpenID with Authlogic" railscast (and the "Authlogic" railscast).

There is a sample application called Authlogic OpenID Selector Example.

Devise

Devise is flexible authentication framework for Rails. It supports OpenID with devise_openid_authenticatable.

restful_authentication

Another authentication library of choice is restful_authentication Rails plugin. Seems like you also need to install open_id_authentication plugin.

You may want to watch (old, circa 2007) "OpenID Authentication" railscast.

Ruby OpenID

Raw support for OpenID protocol is handled by Ruby OpenID library.

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