Working With Rails

Open Id Consumer

A Ruby on Rails plugin for OpenID authentication and profile exchange

Developed by EastMedia (http://www.eastmedia.com) for VeriSign Contact Matt Pelletier – matt AT eastmedia.com

WHAT IS IT?

Installing this plugin allows you to extend your Rails application with OpenID authentication and profile exchange.

PRE-REQUISITES

• JanRain’s Yadis and OpenID 1.1 libraries in Ruby. * These can be obtained using ‘gem install ruby-openid’
• Requires you have an OpenID account * http://pip.verisignlabs.com * http://www.myopenid.com

INSTALLATION

To install you need to create a migration and add a controller.

./script/generate open_id_migration add_open_id_tables
  ./script/generate open_id_consumer_controller open_id

This can be used well in conjunction with a login system such as acts_as_authenticated

EDUCATION

On the Web: http://www.openidenabled.com/ http://www.openidenabled.com/openid/simple-registration-extension/

On IRC: Freenode: #openid and ##identity

More to come

NOTE: This description has been extracted from the Plugin README and so the formatting may need updating to make browser friendly