# Authentication again

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authentication-again/138641>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [May 26, 2008, 10:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authentication-again/138641 "2008-05-26T10:27:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![marc\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@marc\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marc_a)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 10:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authentication-again/138641/1 "2008-05-26T10:27:48Z")

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Hi everybody

First of all sory for my bad english (I’m french).

So here is my problem :  
I’m doing a radiant application and I want to implement user  
authentication. Basicaly the application is a blog and people have to  
register in order to post/create new topic and comment (in fact it’s a  
forum combined to a blog but that’s not the problem).

So I saw a lot of topic talking about authentication in radiant but none  
of them telling how to implement it or even if it’s possible. Some of  
them tell us to use the web server HTTP authentication and others to  
implement an authentication system in rails.

I thought about something but I don’t know if it is possible or not (as  
I’m new in radiant and ruby on rails in general). My guess is to unpack  
the radiant source and use it as a basic rails app, then install the  
restfull\_authentication plugin and finally use it in extensions. I  
started working on that but the more I’m working on it the more I’m  
thinking that I’m going on the wrong way!

So my final question is : does anybody knows a simple way to implement  
the user authentication in radiant and if it’s possible?

Cheers  
Marc.

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**Author:** ![marc\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@marc\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marc_a)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authentication-again/138641/2 "2008-05-26T14:15:06Z")

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Marc,

Radiant is not designed to be community portal software, which would fit  
your use case better. There is a community portal built with Rails but  
the name of it escapes me at the moment.

Sean

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**Author:** ![marc\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@marc\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marc_a)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authentication-again/138641/3 "2008-05-27T19:16:42Z")

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The coincidence of this thread about ‘community-portal’ use case and  
this  
post (Community Engine - Rails Plugin That Adds Social Networking To  
Your  
App)[http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RubyInside/~3/297043164/community-engine-rails-plugin-that-adds-social-networking-to-your-app-901.html](http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/RubyInside/%7E3/297043164/community-engine-rails-plugin-that-adds-social-networking-to-your-app-901.html)at  
Ruby Inside prompt me to ask: does Radiant plays well with rails  
plugins? I recall something about differences in the file structures  
creating incompatibilities.

peace,  
dan

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**Author:** ![marc\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@marc\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marc_a)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authentication-again/138641/4 "2008-05-28T15:41:57Z")

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Thanks, Josh!