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Kevin Ball shows how the traditional model of username/password authentication is dying, and how Omniauth makes it all rainbows and sunshine going forward. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Chris Abad talks a little bit about providing web services to your Rails application using some of the new REST features found in Edge Rails. At the end, he also throws in a bonus tip on using Rick Olson's authentication plugin restful_authentication to add authentication to your REST API. Here are the slides

Kevin Clark gives us a brief overview of two of Rick Olson's authentication plugins: acts_as_authenticated and restful_authentication.