# Is it possible to use restful\_authentication as a gem?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-restful-authentication-as-a-gem/161042>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 22, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-restful-authentication-as-a-gem/161042 "2009-02-22T19:44:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vince)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-restful-authentication-as-a-gem/161042/1 "2009-02-22T19:44:39Z")

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I’m starting a new project and was about to install  
restful\_authentication as a plugin when I noticed on  
[GitHub - technoweenie/restful-authentication: inactive project](http://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication/tree/master) that  
there is now a restful-authentication.gemspec

Does this mean that we can (or should) install it as a gem instead of  
as a plugin?