Managing User authentication with Restful Authentication Plugin

Restful Authentication Plugin is one of the best tools to manage user authentication.

To install:

gem install restful_authentication

After it gets installs run the following script:

script/generate authenticated user sessions

In this command, “authenticated” is the name of the generator; “user” is the name of the model that will store user names and passwords; and “sessions” is the name of the controller that will manage user sessions.

It will create the migration file for us. Then lets migrate the database

rake db:migrate