Why the lack of OpenID-enabled Rails apps?
OpenID has been quickly gaining momentum this year, with Microsoft’s future role as an identity provider, and AOL’s sudden, wonderful announcement that all 60+ million AOL/AIM users now have an...
View ArticleOverloading username and openid_url
DHH, who is promisingly writing a Rails plugin for OpenID with Rick and others, has made a case for applications to store a user’s openid_url in place of their username, and present a unified login...
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OpenIDAuthentication tutorial
DHH’s OpenIDAuthentication plugin for Rails is evolving and progressing quickly. Over the weekend, David updated the plugin to no longer assume an overloaded login form. Removed open_id? as the idea of...
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8 Steps to your first OpenID enabled app
openid_login_generator isn’t the only game in town for creating an OpenID-enabled Rails application, and it’s certainly not the best for real-world apps. But it is the simplest. The generator doesn’t...
View ArticleAn OpenID screencast for developers
Simon Willison’s “How to Use OpenID” screencast did a lot of good — raising the awareness of OpenID and how it works for users. Today, the major bottleneck is getting more web applications to support...
View Articleopen_id_authentication (Part 1)
open_id_authentication is the OpenID consumer plugin for Rails, being written by DHH and some on the Rails core team. This plugin was getting some quick updates at first, but things have slowed down as...
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open_id_authentication (part 2)
In part 1, we looked at some changes to DHH’s OpenID plugin for rails. Now we look at the app’s authenticated sessions controller, which uses that library code. The goals were: Support both OpenID and...
View ArticleScaling rails: nginx plus mongrel cluster
Ezra just put up a nice set of slides for his RailsConf 2007 presentation. Scaling Rails apps is tricky, and the state of the art has been moving fast (just seems like months ago that apache was back...
View ArticlePaul Dowman’s Rails image for EC2
Paul Dowman has created what looks to be a very promising Ubuntu+Rails image for Amazon’s EC2 platform. He has support for capistrano deployment, mongrel_cluster, mysql backup to Amazon’s S3 service,...
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Tomorrow: The First Annual D Language Conference
This week Amazon is hosting the first annual D Programming Language Conference here in Seattle. Looks like the conference will have just over 50 people attending. There’s a single track of speakers, so...
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