Ruby on Rails Sunday, February 27, 2011



On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Alex Katebi <alex.katebi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neither, go with the external authentication omniauth gem. People don't like
> to register to any web sites. They like to use their existing accounts.

That seems like a pretty sweeping statement, especially without any
context as to a given site's audience.

It doesn't appear to me that omniauth offers an alternate local account
authentication method, which means that if a user doesn't use any of
your offered providers (or prefers not to), s/he's out of luck.

Not really. The user can still click on a provider icon and signup right there. It is better to offload authentication to the main stream sites. I don't see a reason for providing a fifth wheel :). Let's face it. No one wants to fill out another registration form and compromise their password or worst remember yet another password.

 
Something to consider.

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