What do you use for authentication ?

[Thibaut Barrère]

Hi!

I'm starting not one, but two sinatra apps that will totally go to
production :)

Just curious, what you guys use for simple authentication ? And for
ssl (if needed) ? Roles maybe ?

Are you more plugging in rack middlewares together, or using a sinatra
specific library ?

thanks!

Thibaut
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[Nicholas Young]

I'm currently using Authlogic, but I'm considering a move to Warden.

If you're wanting to use the former, look for the Sinatra Authlogic
Template on github. It helped me a lot.

Nicholas Young

On Nov 16, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Thibaut Barrère

[Nicholas Young]

Thibaut,

I just though this might help you... I recently discovered the
Sinatra_More gem, and it's full of great stuff, including full Warden
integration. I'm in the process of transferring my Sinatra app to that
now.

http://github.com/nesquena/sinatra_more

-Nicholas

On Nov 16, 6:35 am, Nicholas Young <nicho...@nicholaswyoung.com>
wrote:

[Louis-Philippe]

Rack Middlewares may also get you a more custom and flexible solution, I find Rack::OpenID works like a charm.

2009/11/16 Nicholas Young <nich...@nicholaswyoung.com>

[Harry Vangberg]

Shameless plug, but I have this piece of middleware for authentication,
it has been getting some love lately, so it should be suited for use:

http://github.com/ichverstehe/chowder/

2009/11/16 Louis-Philippe <def...@spiralix.org>:

[Nicholas Young]

Harry,

I'm looking at Chowder - and it looks great. I've got a few questions, though.

I need to be able to add several fields to my user model, i.e. biography, email address, etc. Can I do that?

Second - can I have a user login by email and password?

Third - how expandable is it? (Say, if I wanted to add a Facebook connect library - is that easily doable?)

Thanks for your contribution!

Nicholas Young

[Harry Vangberg]

> I need to be able to add several fields to my user model, i.e. biography,
> email address, etc. Can I do that?

Whatever you put in the signup-form is passed on to your signup callback,
so that should be entirely possible.

> Second - can I have a user login by email and password?

As you can see in the examples, you do the validation logic yourself,
so threat 'login' as email or whatever you want.

> Third - how expandable is it? (Say, if I wanted to add a Facebook connect
> library - is that easily doable?)

I don't know about Facebook Connect specifically, but in general it's easy,
you might want to take a look at the OpenID-authentication. It's pretty
simple.

[Nicholas Young]

Oh, and I forgot to ask, is there a decently simple way to do email validations?

Nicholas Young

[Nicholas Young]

Awesome. I'm going to give it a try! -Nicholas

[Nicholas Young]

Quick Q: How does one go about enabling password resets in Chowder?

On Nov 16, 12:27 pm, Nicholas Young <nicho...@nicholaswyoung.com>
wrote:

[Thibaut Barrère]

Hi guys,

thanks for all the answers, awesome! I'll have a closer look at the
various options :)

cheers,

Thibaut
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[Travis Bell]

Hey Nicholas,

Did you ever figure out an easy way to reset a password with Chowder?

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[Harry Vangberg]

Chowder doesn't care about your model, in fact, I wrote it because I
was tired of all the authentication solutions that require a certain
schema or workflow. Stuff like password reset should be handled by
yourself.

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[Travis Bell]

Thanks Harry.

Is there a library/plugin that can handle the whole meal deal? Ie. not just the framework around auth, but encrypting passwords, email verifications, password resets, etc…?

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[Nicholas Young]

Authlogic is the best that I've found yet -- but it does require some coaxing to work with Sinatra.

I actually ended up going back to Rails for this specific project, Travis -- merely because of time, nothing else. I'm just familiar with Rails, and the MVC is incredibly helpful. 

Nicholas Young