# Base Auth plugin

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/base-auth-plugin/167256>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 6, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/base-auth-plugin/167256 "2009-05-06T02:53:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![madankumarrajan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@madankumarrajan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madankumarrajan)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/base-auth-plugin/167256/1 "2009-05-06T02:53:19Z")

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Where do we really need base-auth plugin?  
If a ‘user’ has multiple ‘houses’, most of the RESTful actions can use  
user.houses itself instead of base-auth.

INDEX: user.houses  
EDIT/UPDATE/DESTROY/SHOW: user.houses.find(params[:id])  
NEW: user.houses.build  
UPDATE: user.houses.create(params[:house])

In such case, I dont see any real value of using base-auth plugin.

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**Author:** ![madankumarrajan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@madankumarrajan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madankumarrajan)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/base-auth-plugin/167256/2 "2009-05-06T05:23:16Z")

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The base-auth plugin is a authentication plugin and has nothing todo  
with how you access a resource (the users houses). You can use the  
helper methods to enforce access rights but it still has nothing to-do  
with user.houses

base-auth is a similar plugin to restful-authentication and Authlogic  
just different features…