I just set up authlogic with rails 3 last week, this forum was super helpful http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/204464
I followed this post http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/204464#916795 and it Just Worked On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Robert Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > aperture science wrote: > > I have been trying for a few days to set up a basic user registration/ > > login system with rails 3 and nearly every single piece of > > documentation is outdated. > > This is not uncommon on the open source. With the vast number of changes > from Rails 2.x to Rails 3.0 It's my feeling the community has done an > outstanding job of updating the critical documentation. Of course the > conversion isn't complete, but I think your 90% figure is far to high. > > > Restful_authentication has several git > > branches, none of which appear to result in a working installation. > > All of them leave me with "could not find generator authenticated". > > I would highly recommend against restful_authentication. Most Rails > developers have moved to the better solutions like Devise and Authlogic. > > > With Devise: "could not find generator devise" Which I only got > > slightly installed after finding some guy's blog entry on the subject. > > I'm not sure about Devise, I've started implementing in Rails 3 and had > no problem running the generator with the documented Rails 3 command: > > rails generate devise:install > > Are you sure that your Rails 3 environment, and Ruby, is installed and > configured properly? > What platform are you using? (Operating system, Ruby version, RVM, etc) > > > authlogic finally got installed and I could generate some models but > > the documentation broke down when the singular guide I could find for > > rails 3 was unable to account for an uninitialized constant > > userSessionController. I could not find much of any documentation on > > the general "uninitialized constant" error anywhere. > > I've not tried Authlogic. However unless "userSessionController" is just > a typo in this forum post I can certainly see why you would get an > "uninitialized constant" error since class names should be upper camel > case (e.g. UserSessionController). That's basic Ruby and has nothing to > do with poor documentation on the part of Rails or Authlogic. > > > I still see most references saying to use "script/*" method. > > Why is that a big deal? Rails 3 documentation > (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html) clearly states the > usage of the new commands (e.g. rails generate (g), rails server (s), > etc.). > > > Am I better off downgrading to some old version of rails? Or have I > > just been horribly wrong in everything? > > I'd say no. For anyone starting out with Rails I'd recommend learning > Rails 3. > > Given this stuff is all open source I'd say to start getting used to > figuring things out for yourself. This is a community effort. Most > people working on Rails have other jobs as well. Documentation is > "owned" by the community. Rather than complain about the documentation > start contributing to fix it. If you find something wrong fix it and > submit it. I'm sure the Rails team would appreciate such contributions. > > > I would really like to use rails for my projects, but it seems as > > though there is no unification in the project. Nothing works together > > from moment to moment, and updates seem to break every thing. If > > rails 3 is too new, what is the recommended rails version with > > compatibility with plugins in mind? Or can anyone suggest a > > registration/authentication framework/plugin for rails 3 that has > > concise clear and functional documentation that isn't fragmented and > > pieced together from semi-working examples taken from blog sites? > > I have, so far, not run into any of the issues you've mentioned with my > experimentation with Devise. I found their documentation to be clear, > concise and accurate. I think you have some other problems with your > setup. > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
