# User Authentication

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-authentication/138497>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 23, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-authentication/138497 "2008-05-23T18:40:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dustin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@dustin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dustin)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-authentication/138497/1 "2008-05-23T18:40:23Z")

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I’m new to Rails and I’m having trouble wrapping my brain around it to  
be honest. I want to create a user registration, login system. It  
seems this is common are there any tutorials that walk you through  
doing this in rails 2.0

Also, I was looking at this gem  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/salted-login/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/salted-login/)

- but I don’t see how to use it. Where do I find documentation for  
this?

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**Author:** ![dustin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@dustin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dustin)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-authentication/138497/2 "2008-05-23T19:02:18Z")

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Dustin wrote:

> I’m new to Rails and I’m having trouble wrapping my brain around it to  
> be honest. I want to create a user registration, login system. It  
> seems this is common are there any tutorials that walk you through  
> doing this in rails 2.0
> 
> Also, I was looking at this gem  
> [http://rubyforge.org/projects/salted-login/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/salted-login/)
> 
> - but I don’t see how to use it. Where do I find documentation for  
> this?

check out the railscasts at [http://railscasts.com/episodes;archive](http://railscasts.com/episodes;archive)

search for authentication. there are 3 or 4 tutorials depending on how  
you want to implement it.

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**Author:** ![dustin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@dustin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dustin)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-authentication/138497/3 "2008-05-23T20:36:29Z")

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Thanks. Looks like the restful\_authentication plugin is the most  
popular.

On May 23, 11:02 am, Scott K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![dustin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@dustin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dustin)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-authentication/138497/4 "2008-05-24T00:34:26Z")

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Check out the 50 mins screencast on User Management in Rails:

[http://www.rubyplus.org/episodes/20-Extended-RESTful-Authentication-Rails-2-App.html](http://www.rubyplus.org/episodes/20-Extended-RESTful-Authentication-Rails-2-App.html)

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Dustin [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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