Rails authentication plugin recommendation

authentication, ruby-on-rails

Solution

I recently switched from restful_authentication to AuthLogic. The main reason was because I found restful_authentication a bit too bloated for what I was trying to achieve. Check out Ryan Bates' brilliant screencast:

- http://railscasts.com/episodes/160-authlogic

Problem

I would like to add authentication to my Rails app. I came across few plugins that do this: acts_as_authenticated, restful_authentication, Authlogic...etc I haven't seen an article that describes differences, advantages and disadvantages of using each. Can you help with that? which one do you use and why? Thanks, Tam

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