I am a rails newbie and I was wondering if you have to have omniauth in order to work with koala. For example, if I followed this sites code, http://udooz.net/blog/2011/02/facebook-app-using-rails-koala/, would I need omniauth already set up to do so?
No. In that particular example, everything there looks like it should work as is (disclaimer: I have not tried the example myself.) In general, Koala doesn't require OmniAuth.
What OmniAuth gives you is a single gem to let you easily authenticate users with your choice of third-party authentication systems. It would be useful if you are considering allowing your users to login with more than just their Facebook credentials, like Twitter or Open ID credentials.
For completeness, here's the source of most of the information of that blog post from the Koala wiki on Github: https://github.com/arsduo/koala/wiki/Koala-on-Rails
You don't need OmniAuth. I've used Koala only.
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I currently have a simple, hand-coded login system in my rails app. Now, I'm looking to integrate Facebook login via OmniAuth (seems to be the best way to do so)
However, I keep seeing Devise come up as a popular way to handle logins, with OmniAuth implemented in conjunction with it.
If I'm pretty happy with my login system now, is there any reason to use Devise? Does it give OmniAuth any extra functionality/extensibility or make it easier to use?
If you are a railscasts subscriber check out http://railscasts.com/episodes/235-devise-and-omniauth-revised
Devise does have some convenient hooks for omniauth, so that is a plus to using devise. That being said if you are happy with your authentication then you can simply build omniauth as a separate authentication method, and handle any overlap yourself. Also check out http://railscasts.com/episodes/241-simple-omniauth.
Good luck!
We need to have basic authentication in our Rails 3 app but the requirements are to also integrate with providers such as facebook, linked in, google apps, twitter, etc.
We are looking at:
Clearance
Divise
AuthLogic
... and others.
Any advice on which one to use that provides most of what we need?
OmniAuth is great for plugging in to third party authentication:
Code: https://github.com/intridea/omniauth
http://railscasts.com/episodes/235-omniauth-part-1
and
http://railscasts.com/episodes/236-omniauth-part-2
The above railscasts are great resources for a simple overview of using OmniAuth.
Devise is the current top dog, as it sets up sensible defaults, and makes it remarkably easy to override parts of the authentication system without affecting the rest.
It also has a branch and instructions to easily support OmniAuth for OAuth/OpenID authentication: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/OmniAuth:-Overview
I'm not experienced with either of these gems but I came across this blog post that had some high level points comparing Devise and Authlogic. http://www.quora.com/Ruby-on-Rails/How-should-I-choose-an-authentication-gem
This one persuaded me to start with Authlogic:
When a user logs in I like to set a cookie that has the username so I can access it from JavaScript. I know how to do this with Authlogic: add a line of code to UserSessionsController#create. How do I do it with Devise? I can't see how. (I don't want to do it on every page request. Just when they authenticate.)
You can give a shot to Sorcery gem which nicely handle third party authentification.
I found it easy to learn and to implement, and it's well documented too.
I don't try the other gems but this one is growing very fast right now, despite the fact that it's not an very old project
Good luck!!!
I want to add authentication to my Ruby on Rails 3 app, but I only need users to be able to authenticate using their Google accounts, because I'm making it a hosted app for the Chrome Webstore, so I think OpenID would work well for this. I want to have some custom fields in the user database to store user-specific data. What should I use for this? I want users to be able to sign up only with OpenID.
Thanks.
You should try omniauth gem, it uses not only Google OpenID. Omniauth takes user's data from provider and pass to your application which is you can amplify
I've been using authlogic and authlogic-oid add-on to handle this.
You could try the devise_openid_authenticatable gem. I haven't used it myself but it looks like it would do what you want using the Devise authentication gem, which is what I use on all of my Rails projects.
I'm building an app in Rails 3. I currently have a user model which is authenticated via devise (email + password auth). I want to be able to show connect to facebook, connect to twitter buttons to the users once they are logged in.
After obtaining the keys from Facebook and Twitter, I'd want to store it in the database for future requests.
Which Ruby Gems should I be using for this use case?
Thanks!
Instead of Facebooker, we just implemented a facebook-connect style login and application using mini_fb
Mini_fb uses the new graph API, which is cool, and was easy to implement. We used Rails3 and authlogic, but difference to devise should be negligible.
For twitter, this twitter gem is nice, but this devise-twitter gem looks nice for login.
Okay, still no answers. Please check out the Ruby Toolbox, I'm sure the answer is there. It will tell you what the most common gems are for your problem if you can figure out the categorization system. Also, facebooker is a nice gem but it's a little old.
Facebooker is deprecated in favour of mogli, which uses the Graph API. And for Twitter, I'd recommend John Nunemaker's twitter. Since you are already using Devise, you can use the devise-twitter as mentioned by Jesse Wolgamott.
I'm currently running on a Ruby on Rails app with Authlogic handling my authentication and user management.
I'm struggling to find up to date information on the best way to add 3rd party login methods to my site, supplementing the standard sign up and login. There are a number of tutorials out there, but all seem to be outdated or incomplete. Could I get some recommendations on the best way to add multiple 3rd party login methods to Authlogic?
Authlogic appears to be built from the ground up for this type of thing, but it's very poorly documented, and it's own page seems very outdated on this.
They seem to recommend for Facebook using authlogic_facebook_connect plugin, which in turn relies upon the outdated Facebooker gem, which has been replaced by Facebooker2. Is there a way to use Facebooker2 with Authlogic?
I have also found on Google authlogic_oauth2, which is a more modern plugin that can login using Facebook credentials using OAuth2. Unfortunately, the author states that this plugin cannot be used alongside Authlogic plugins for OAuth (Twitter) and OpenID due to conflicts.
What are the recommended gems or plugins I can use together to allow login to my site via Facebook, Twitter, and OpenID?
This looks interesting. Planning to give it a shot.
https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/Extensions
Edit:
I tried it and I am using devise and omniauth together to handle this:
Check out these links:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/209-introducing-devise
http://railscasts.com/episodes/210-customizing-devise
http://railscasts.com/episodes/235-omniauth-part-1
http://railscasts.com/episodes/236-omniauth-part-2
It is a very good solution
Devise now has built-in OAuth that you can use with Facebook, Github, Twitter, etc. The documentation is quite helpful.
I haven't used it yet, but this one looks promising:
http://github.com/viatropos/authlogic-connect
It seems you can handle multiple oauth logins in a single db table, and the example includes keys for facebook, twitter, google etc etc so looks promising on the multiple-applications front
Click on the below link to get the steps for social login.
This is my blog only..
https://rubysolutions.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/facebook-and-google-sign-in-integration-using-devise-and-omniauth-in-rails-4-app-ruby-2/