Question

I am following a Ruby on Rails tutorial in a book that uses Acts As Authenticated, but this seems to no longer be supported. I was searching and came across a SO post which recommends a couple of different alternatives for doing user authentication in rails applications. I think AuthLogic looks like a good choice. I am using Rails 2.3.5 and Ruby 1.8.7.

The AuthLogic readme section states the following:

** Please note the latest version is compatible with rails 3 only. Rails 2
should use version 2.X.X **

However, when scrolling down to the section about installing as gem or plugin, it only gives the following examples:

Rails 3:

$ sudo gem install authlogic

Rails 2:

$ sudo gem install authlogic
–version=2.1.6

Or install as a plugin:

script/plugin install
git://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic.git

I want to install a plugin, rather than the gem, but I need to do it for 2.3.5, not for 3. Can I install the plugin by version in the same way that it shows how to install the gem by version? For example:

script/plugin install git://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic.git –version=2.3.5

If this is not how it is done, could someone please explain to me how to do it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I really would reconsider using as a plugin and instead setup bundler in your project. Your Gemfile line would be gem 'authlogic', '2.1.6'. If you are concerned about packaging libraries with your project you can bundle pack to include your gems with your project.

Anyway, The following plugin install command should work.

script/plugin install git://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic.git -r 'tag v2.1.6'