OmniAuth: Flexible, Unassuming Multi-Provider Authentication for Rack by Intridea
Authlogic has been giving me a tough time for Facebook and OAuth integration and I was looking for an alternative. Thats when I came across the blog post at the Intridea blog.
OmniAuth is a new Rack-based authentication system for multi-provider external authentcation. OmniAuth is built from the ground up on the philosophy that authentication is not the same as identity, and is based on two observations:
- The traditional sign up using a login and password model is becoming the exception, not the rule. Modern web applications offer external authentication via OpenID, Facebook, and/or OAuth.
- The interconnectable web is no longer a dream, it is a necessity. It is not unreasonable to expect that one application may need to be able to connect to one, three, or twelve other services. Modern authentication systems should allow a user's identity to be associated with many authentications.
Read more at the Github page.
I will be trying out a POC with this soon to check out how this works. So keep watching this space :).
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