# Active Directory in Ruby on rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-directory-in-ruby-on-rails/189104>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 24, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-directory-in-ruby-on-rails/189104 "2010-05-24T15:56:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![periyasamy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@periyasamy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/periyasamy)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-directory-in-ruby-on-rails/189104/1 "2010-05-24T15:56:30Z")

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Hi All,

What is Active Directory authentication?. How to use in Ruby on  
rails?.

Regards,

Periyasamy.R

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**Author:** ![periyasamy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@periyasamy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/periyasamy)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-directory-in-ruby-on-rails/189104/2 "2010-05-24T18:26:57Z")

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Active Directory ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active\_directory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_directory)) is  
Microsoft’s implementation of LDAP ([Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/)  
LDAP). I use the ruby-net-ldap gem ([http://net-ldap.rubyforge.org/](http://net-ldap.rubyforge.org/))  
to access it. Comments in the code provide an overview of LDAP,  
document the methods and provide examples. See lib\net\ldap.rb in the  
ruby-net-ldap gem directory for authentication.