Pablo Fernandez

Tag: authentication

  • Getting the current user

    I’m not using any authentication gem or plug in, I’m rolling my own. I’m actually using OpenID, so rolling my own is not hard: no passwords to encrypt, resend and send, no email address to verify. I think this is the future. But I’m also doing something that I call ghost users. When you use…

  • The advantages of OpenID

    OpenID has many advantages. For the average user, the main one is not having to remember a thousand passwords. That’s obvious. But also consider not having to remember the username. Many web sites use the email address as username and that’s nice, but many don’t. And most people are not lucky enough to have a…