Latest Screencasts

CanCan is a simple authorization plugin that offers a lot off flexibility. See how to use it in this episode. Watch this screencast

Declarative authorization provides an advanced and powerful solution for role based authorization. Watch this screencast

In this screencast, I show you how to use the Twitter gem to connect to Twitter, and we clarify some of the difficulties that comes with learning OAuth. Watch this screencast

In this series, I attempt to recreate a twitter style application called 'Flitter'. In this installment, I show you how to create an authenticated system easily using existing tools. I also show how to generate test data to simulate an active application. Finally, you will learn how to set up self-referencial associations. Watch this screencast

Learn how to apply OpenID to an existing Authlogic setup as I show in this episode. This builds upon the app from episode 160. Watch this screencast

Rack::OAuth is a Rack middleware for easily integrating OAuth into your Ruby web applications. If you’re using a Sinatra application or Rackup file, all you need to do is: 1 use Rack::OAuth, :key => 'your-oauth-app-key', 2 :secret => 'your-oauth-app-secret', 3 :site => 'http://twitter-or-whatever.com' If you’re using Rails, all you need... Watch this screencast

Authentication can get very complex. In this episode I show how Authlogic can handle this complexity while you stay in control of how it is presented to the user. Watch this screencast

Rails 2.0 offers an extremely easy way to do HTTP basic authentication. See how in this episode. Watch this screencast

Ever wonder how to implement OpenID authentication in your Rails app? This episode will show you how to add it to a site with an existing authentication system. Watch this screencast

Need multiple user authentication? If so, the restful_authentication plugin is a great way to go. It will generate some basic authentication code for you which is good starting point to your authentication system. Watch this episode for details. Watch this screencast