Thanks for clarifying this a bit; it’s just demoralizing trying to tie together OpenID, one of a half-dozen authentication plugins/engines/schemes, and a straightforward authorization system. As usual, what ought to be a simple matter of installing a turnkey auth scheme is taking far more effort than the entire rest of the application. This has been true each of the three times I’ve attempted a Rails application and I don’t see things getting better overall…

If I can get some cooperation from the Austin on Rails group, I’ll solve this problem for the next 6 months (until core Rails changes enough to deprecate key components without providing replacements – I’m thinking of UserEngine…) and write it up so I’m not accused of pointless bitching. :)

Thanks for the tip. I have updated the code in the post.

I don’t know if this will layout right in the comment. Ben feel free to fix it for me ;)


def open_id_authentication
authenticate_with_open_id do |result, identity_url|
if result.successful?
if self.current_user = User.find_or_create_by_identity_url(identity_url)
successful_login
else
failed_login "Sorry, no user by that identity URL exists (#{identity_url})"
end
else
failed_login result.message
end
end
end


Thanks for the guide. Helped me integrate it with the RestfulAuthentication plugin.