MinimalistAuthentication

A Rails authentication gem that takes a minimalist approach. It is designed to be simple to understand, use, and modify for your application.

This gem was largely inspired by the restful-authentication plugin (http://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication/tree/master). I selected the essential methods for password based authentication, reorganized them, trimmed them down when possible, added a couple of features, and resisted the urge to start adding more.

Installation

1) Add to your Gemfile:

gem 'minimalist_authentication'

2) Create a user model:

ruby script/rails generate model user active:boolean email:string crypted_password:string salt:string using_digest_version:integer last_logged_in_at:datetime

Example

1) app/models/user.rb

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Minimalist::Authentication
end

2) app/controllers/application.rb

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  include Minimalist::Authorization

  # Lock down everything by default
  # use skip_before_filter to open up sepecific actions
  prepend_before_filter :authorization_required
end

3) app/controllers/sessions_controller.rb

class SessionsController < ApplicationController
  include Minimalist::Sessions
  skip_before_filter :authorization_required, :only => [:new, :create]
end

4) test/test_helper.rb

class Test::Unit::TestCase
  include Minimalist::TestHelper
end