# Standard Rails library

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-rails-library/89698>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 22, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-rails-library/89698 "2007-03-22T05:56:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamesarobertson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e68b1a/32.png) [@jamesarobertson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamesarobertson)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-rails-library/89698/1 "2007-03-22T05:56:27Z")

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Is there a ‘standard’ (ie. managed) library of test Rail plug-ins/  
modules/extensions/etc.? (ie. a bit like Perl CPAN or PHP Pear, etc.)

What I am currently looking for is an authentication module. I visited  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Authentication](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Authentication) but this just  
seemed to containa whole ‘soup’ of different bits of code with no easy  
way to determine what each does or to judge which is more complete/  
robust/maintained.