How to build an easy Rails authentication with OpenID and OAuth1.0a-2.0?

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Published on 2010-04-29T19:38:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 6:47 UTC
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Hi, I'am looking for an easy authentication for my users mostly via facebook, but keeping OpenID and other OAuth alternatives as well. For the case if something will go very bad, I will ask my users to optionally provide their email address, which should be obtained via OpenID or OAuth if possible. The same thing is about their name.

I am a newbie in Rails, so I started with Railscasts.com #160 (authlogic) and #170 (authlogic and OpenID), however, I had some problems trying to sign in with my Google Account. As I understand, it will take some effort to adjust #170 for my objectives. On the other hand, there is gem authlogic_rpx which will possibly provide me the needed functionality (see http://rails-authlogic-rpx-sample.heroku.com/signin).

What would you do? Is it reasonable to put one more step (RPX) in the authentication logic?

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