On Mon, Feb 20, 2006, Michael Buffington wrote: > I've also used Salted Hash Login Generator, and if > acts_as_authenticated is a glass of water, SHLG is a barrel of mud. > Way over-engineered, and typically requires a lot of hand holding just > to get it to work.
Could not agree with this more. I wrote a quickstart for the Rails wiki about the SHLG a while ago, and it was promptly filled with questions from people for whom it just would not work. I wrote it in the first place because the documentation was wrong and questions were appearing on the Rails mailing list every two days. It didn't help much. > And I've rolled my own based on simplified versions of SHLG. > acts_as_authenticated is just enough to get the job done, and easily > modifiable to add what you need. Very much the Ruby Way. Yup, exactly. There's definitely value in writing your own for the learning experience, but it's only worth it once ;) acts_as_authenticated is usually the first thing to go into a new project of mine. Ben _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
