# Non-engine based login system?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/non-engine-based-login-system/47598>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 12, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/non-engine-based-login-system/47598 "2005-11-12T12:49:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![steve](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@steve](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steve)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/non-engine-based-login-system/47598/1 "2005-11-12T12:49:35Z")

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Anyone working on this?

Don’t get me wrong, the engine is cool - I can see that lots of work  
went into it. It just feels like plugins in a framework within another  
framework (rails itself)… and something doesn’t feel very KISS about it  
to me. I get the point, of course… common code to be shared amongst  
plugins. But in my, and I’m guessing many others’ situation, I’d only  
ever make use of the login system.

Anyway… is anyone else doing just a bare login plugin?

–Steve

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**Author:** ![steve](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@steve](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steve)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/non-engine-based-login-system/47598/2 "2005-11-12T12:49:36Z")

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Steve,

I can’t say whether anyone is actively working on one.

If nobody chimes in to say they’ve got one finished, you should take a  
crack at it. It’s not exactly a difficult plugin to write:

./script/generate plugin login\_system\_plugin --with-generators  
mv lib/login\_system.rb vendor/plugins/login\_system\_plugin/lib/

and then flesh out the generator to create scaffold for the login  
controller, views and model.

If you make the generated items just “include  
LoginSystem::\<relevant\_module\>” you can avoid the upgrade grief  
associated with ‘pure’ generators (which is what I’m doing with the  
current plugin I’m working on).

Regards,  
Trevor

On 9-Nov-05, at 3:17 PM, Stephen W. wrote:

> Anyway… is anyone else doing just a bare login plugin?
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> –Steve
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Trevor S.  
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**Author:** ![steve](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@steve](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steve)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/non-engine-based-login-system/47598/3 "2005-11-12T12:49:47Z")

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On Nov 9, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Trevor S. wrote:

> It’s not exactly a difficult plugin to write:

Thanks for the tips Trevor!

–Steve