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In this second part of the series on administration, you will learn how to lock down the site to keep the public from accessing the administration features.

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.