Working With Rails

Restful Authentication

This is a basic restful authentication generator for rails, taken from acts as authenticated. Currently it requires Rails 1.2 (or edge).

To use:

./script/generate authenticated user sessions --include-activation

The first parameter specifies the model that gets created in signup (typically a user or account model). A model with migration is created, as well as a basic controller with the create method.

The second parameter specifies the sessions controller name. This is the controller that handles the actual login/logout function on the site.

The third parameter (—include-activation) generates the code for a ActionMailer and its respective Activation Code through email.

You can pass—skip-migration to skip the user migration.

From here, you will need to add the resource routes in config/routes.rb.

map.resources :users, :sessions

Also, add an observer to config/environment.rb if you chose the—include-activation option config.active_record.observers = :user_observer # or whatever you named your model

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