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Here I show off three new features in Rails 3.1 that will help with authentication: easier HTTP Basic, SecurePassword in the database, and forcing SSL.

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.

Password authentication is not too complicated to make from scratch, it will also help to get a better understanding of how it works.

Authentication is incredibly simple to add with just OmniAuth if you don't need username/password or multiple authentications per user.

In this episode we continue our look at integrating OmniAuth with devise. Here I show how to set up new users with validations.

OmniAuth is an easy way to add many different authentication services to your app. In this episode we start integrating it with Devise.

Twitter just turned off Basic Auth and is forcing application developer to use OAuth. Here is a demonstration of how to add Twitter OAuth to your Ruby on Rails Application.

Janrain Engage (aka RPX) makes it easy to support many authentication solutions through their one service.

Here we dive deeper into Devise by customizing how the views, routing, validations, and authentication works.

Devise is a full-featured authentication solution which handles all of the controller logic and form views for you. Learn how to set it up in this episode.