# Acts\_as\_authenticated

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-authenticated/110537>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 27, 2007, 10:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-authenticated/110537 "2007-07-27T10:51:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Penny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@Penny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Penny)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 10:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-authenticated/110537/1 "2007-07-27T10:51:30Z")

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Hi, I could use some help.

I’ve got a simple rails app and want to add authentication. I’ve  
followed the first two steps in the wiki guide

script/plugin source [http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins)  
script/plugin install acts\_as\_authenticated

First step succeeds.  
Second step comes back with ‘Plugin not found:  
[“acts\_as\_authenticated”]’

Help very much appreciated.

P

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**Author:** ![Penny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@Penny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Penny)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-authenticated/110537/2 "2007-07-27T14:31:47Z")

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try this:

script/plugin install  
[http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/acts\_as\_authenticated/](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/acts_as_authenticated/)

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**Author:** ![Penny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@Penny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Penny)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-authenticated/110537/3 "2007-07-27T15:11:54Z")

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Thanks for posting. I tried that, but it waited for a while and then  
said:

Plugin not found: [“[http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/)  
acts\_as\_authenticated/”]

which is nonsense because I can browse to that location without  
problems and the install script is visible. ☹

Anyway, don’t worry. I’m using the hand-built authentication instead  
and it’s pretty much done.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Penny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@Penny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Penny)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 11:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-authenticated/110537/4 "2008-04-17T11:21:28Z")

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Hi all,  
I am also facing the same problem. Unable to install  
acts\_as\_authenticated, it says plugin not found. I have trued to  
download it using tortoise SVN client it says some PROPFIND ERROR has  
occurred.

1. IS there any other manual way of installing the plugin.
2. What mistake am I doing while installing th plugin.
3. Should we configure anything b4 downloading using a SVN CLIENT (IT  
occurs with all plugins).

I love ruby and am a beginner in ROR but stuck with this problem for  
long … There is no big help available on net for this problem, so any  
help wud be appreciated. Thanks in advance

Penny wrote:

> Thanks for posting. I tried that, but it waited for a while and then  
> said:
> 
> Plugin not found: [“[http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/)  
> acts\_as\_authenticated/”]
> 
> which is nonsense because I can browse to that location without  
> problems and the install script is visible. ☹
> 
> Anyway, don’t worry. I’m using the hand-built authentication instead  
> and it’s pretty much done.
> 
> Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Penny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@Penny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Penny)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 6:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-authenticated/110537/5 "2008-04-22T06:39:28Z")

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> 1. IS there any other manual way of installing the plugin.
> 2. What mistake am I doing while installing th plugin.
> 3. Should we configure anything b4 downloading using a SVN CLIENT (IT  
> occurs with all plugins).
> 
> I love ruby and am a beginner in ROR but stuck with this problem for  
> long … There is no big help available on net for this problem, so any  
> help wud be appreciated. Thanks in advance

If you read the README you’ll see that is says this.

DEPRECATED: Use restful\_authentication instead. Or, ask me for commit  
rights if you wish to maintain this plugin.

So what you really want is this

[http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/restful\_authentication](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/restful_authentication)