Setting up Restful Authentication

RESTful Authentication replaces the Acts as Authenticated plugin. Both plugins are by technoweenie, but he has stopped development on the latter.

1. To install restful_authentication:
   • Run script/plugin source http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins
   • Run script/plugin install restful_authentication
2. Once installed, run ./script/generate authenticated user sessions --include-activation
   • We add --include-activation so that users are emailed after activation.
3. Add the following line inside the Rails::Initializer.run do |config| block of config/environment.rb
config.active_record.observers = :user_observer

• Change sessions_controller.rb:
  

    # render new.rhtml
    def new
      # Store the referer so that we can go back to where the user wanted to log in.
      referer = URI::parse(request.referer)
      session[:return_to] = referer.path if referer.host == request.host
    end