Nobody Listens Anyway

I am tired of recreating the login system for Rails for each new project so using the RESTful Rails Authentication Tutorial I created a template project that I can use to create new projects. While adding in the OpenID Authentication component I started getting this error:

/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:376:in `new_constants_in’: You have a nil object when you [...]

I have been pitching this idea of a distributed social network to everyone that can stand to listen to me. I realize that the conversation around Wordpress and the future of social networking is heating up, but as it does I think it is important to begin thinking about implementation. It is fun [...]

I have been playing with OpenID for about a year now. It is a very cool, distributed authentication system. The concept is great and I love that I don’t have to create accounts everywhere. Instead, I just log in with OpenID and away I go. The biggest shortcoming for OpenID from [...]

We use Edge Rails in our projects. Call me stupid if you like, I like living on the edge (get it?). This desire to push our luck has bitten us a couple of times, but not in any serious way. Not until recently anyway. We use OpenID - another brand new [...]

We are looking at implementing OpenID in the Folksemantic applications at COSL. I have been trying to figure out how to present this new technology to our users. Most people have been adding OpenID alongside their standard navigation. DHH’s plugin uses http:// to indicate OpenID using your current login form. The [...]

After the Two Revolutions session I had a few minutes to talk to DHH. First I must say he is just a very nice guy. Programmer envy over. I had a discussion about OpenID. It is going to be a critical component of the next rev of our apps. OpenID [...]