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Ruby

Posted by Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points

Gem for user authentication in ruby course

Any one know the gem that was used for the users authentication on the ruby course for creating a facebook like app? Can't figure it out lol

2 Answers

John Magee
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John Magee
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John Magee
John Magee
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Well I don't know which one but I know omniauth is very popular - I was hoping they would 'roll their own' because it's always better to know how to do your own.

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
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Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
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It's Devise.

https://github.com/plataformatec/devise

However, User Authentication with Rails is a course which has you creating your own, which I suggest you do, because while Devise is nice, as soon as you need to customize it, you run into many issues.

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/user-authentication-with-rails