In my never ending love/hate relationship with Ruby, Rails and my Mac I’ve finally gotten Ruby 1.9 up and running with Rails 2.3 and MySql 64 bit. All on Snow Leopard. There was an even a little detour with Readline. If you’ve scoured other posts about Snow Leopard, Ruby, Rails and Mysql and ended up here I feel your pain. I hope this helps you on your way. Most of this info is from other places which I’ve explained in a little (just a little) but more depth. Read More
Tag Archive for 'rails'
So, I’m working on a Rails App and I want to use OpenID (and only OpenID) for authentication. I was going to use Restful_Authentication with the open_id_authentication extension, but then I saw Ryan Bates’ Railscast on AuthLogic. Authlogic has an OpenID extention which looked perfect for my needs, and Authlogic seemed like a great gem for authentication. My goal was simple: I wanted to support, and only support, authentication via OpenID. None of this username/password/salt stuff.
As I wrote recently in a previous post, I’ve been playing around with Rails. I wanted to touch on how I got up and running learning and digging into Rails. Read More
One of the things I’ve been doing lately is digging into Ruby on Rails. I’ve always wanted to learn Rails since I was first exposed to Rails at an AjaxWorld conference in ’06 (at least, I think in 06). David Heinemeier Hansson actually presented!