I spent several person-days trying to install and use
restful_authentication, but it was mostly a frustrating, labor-intensive
exercise in futility. [1, 2] I then found this prescient article by
David Heinemeier H. from 2005:
I don’t share his philosophical issues with pluggable engines, but in
practice, he seems to have been spot on. Impressive!
[1] The current issues are FixtureClassNotFound errors in the
out-of-the-box unit tests on Debian; I’ve tried Ruby 1.87 and 1.9.1,
each with two variations of restful-authentication:
Just for the record I installed and setup restful_authentication with no
problems.
Persevere with git. It seems strange at first if you have been used to
svn
but after a while you will wonder how you managed without it.
Particularly
if you use it on your own projects.