Every application has users, and typically, one wants to restrict access to registered users. That means writing code for user authentication. Or does it? Merb comes with the merb-auth gem baked in. When you generate an application with the default merb stack, merb-auth is already set up for typical usage.
Here’s information about using merb-auth:
- Merb::Authentication Documentation
- A chapter from the Merb Open Source Book on Authentication
As an alternative to merb-auth, there’s the Ruby Authlogic gem from Ben Johnson which is an interesting implementation that works with Rails or Merb. For now, I’m just going to look at merb-auth.
