What is the best login generator to use?

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Hello,

Where can I find a good login geenrator that has roles, email support…

Thanks

Frank

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Frank wrote:

Hello,

Where can I find a good login geenrator that has roles, email support…

Thanks

Frank

Hi Frank-

You’re opening a can of worms around here mentioning login
generator/plugin/component/engines.

I started with the Salted Hash Login Generator and doctored it up quite
a bit. I ended up moving some components to my “account_controller”,
some to my “signup_controller”, some to my “admin/…_controllers” and
so on.

It natively supports roles, but not in a fashion I wanted to use. I
added a usergroup class/model and linked it through that. It does have
email support.

Cheers,
Jake J.

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Jake is right, there is quite a bit of activity regarding login and
role support around here. Taking that into account, I would like to
give a vote of support to login_engine and user_engine. Login_engine
is basically Salted Hash Login Generator without the localization
(making initial setup a bit easier) and it is a Rails Engine, which
has great buzzword value. Regardless of any hype around the Engines
system, I have found that they are both very useful and include some
nice features out of the box… erm, svn checkout.

Daniel H.

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I did not want to start a war.

How do I install login_engine and user_engine?

Thanks

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: “Daniel H.” [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Rails] Re: What is the best login generator to use?

Jake is right, there is quite a bit of activity regarding login and
role support around here. Taking that into account, I would like to
give a vote of support to login_engine and user_engine. Login_engine
is basically Salted Hash Login Generator without the localization
(making initial setup a bit easier) and it is a Rails Engine, which
has great buzzword value. Regardless of any hype around the Engines
system, I have found that they are both very useful and include some
nice features out of the box… erm, svn checkout.

Daniel H.

On 12/27/05, Jake J. [email protected] wrote:

Hi Frank-
added a usergroup class/model and linked it through that. It does have
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On 12/27/05, Bob H. [email protected] wrote:

easier? Doesn’t this make adding localisation later a lot harder? If
you do add localisation what happens when you want to upgrade the
engine? Is there a way of localising stuff in Rails that makes this a
non-issue?

Right. The login system is NOT the right place for localization to take
place.
MLR (multilingual Rails) is currently under revision, and should be
coming out as a plugin soon.
http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails-core/2005-November/000198.html

Having localization happen in the login generator made it more
difficult to localize the rest of the app.

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Just an update: That new version of MLR I was working on is now called
Globalize, and is available as a plugin at:
http://globalize.diluvia.net/wiki.

Happy Holidays,
Josh Harvey
http://shnoo.gr

Wilson B. wrote:

Right. The login system is NOT the right place for localization to take
place.
MLR (multilingual Rails) is currently under revision, and should be
coming out as a plugin soon.
http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails-core/2005-November/000198.html

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On Dec 27, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Daniel H. wrote:

Jake is right, there is quite a bit of activity regarding login and
role support around here. Taking that into account, I would like to
give a vote of support to login_engine and user_engine. Login_engine
is basically Salted Hash Login Generator without the localization
(making initial setup a bit easier)

Is this the reason localisation was dropped? To make setup a bit
easier? Doesn’t this make adding localisation later a lot harder? If
you do add localisation what happens when you want to upgrade the
engine? Is there a way of localising stuff in Rails that makes this a
non-issue?

Thanks,
Bob

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Sorry. I actually knew that, my brain just stopped working before I
finished the e-mail.

P.S. - RubyForge project for the cross-platform Unicode gem coming
soon; I haven’t forgotten.

–Wilson.