# Whiser selection of user/roles engines

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whiser-selection-of-user-roles-engines/125652>\
**Category:** Engines\
**Created:** [January 10, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whiser-selection-of-user-roles-engines/125652 "2008-01-10T23:22:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whiser-selection-of-user-roles-engines/125652/1 "2008-01-10T23:22:05Z")

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Hi,

I just need to offer my application user’s means to login to the system.  
And be able to assign different roles to those users to protect access  
to different views of the application. Typical stuff.

I’m a bit confused when trying to select the most appropriate engines  
for that functionality on Ruby on rails. There seem to be several  
engines each with its own benefits and problems, and some of them seem  
to be unsupported already.

Currently I’m running Rails 2.0.2 and Ruby 1.8.6

I would appreciate any advices you might have regarding the selection.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whiser-selection-of-user-roles-engines/125652/2 "2008-01-10T23:54:31Z")

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Of course I could jump into the resurrected Login Engine of Eric  
Anderson. But should I as a newbe? 🕶