Latest Screencasts (page 2)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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.

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.