The demo is down. Any chance you could set it up again ?

Thanks !

Thank you!!

John

http://kzakdemo.heroku.com/

The login and password are both "test"

This sounds interesting – I follow and work with Soundmanager2 quite a bit. But I'm note a real hard-core coder, I'm someone who works more with how technologies get used by end -users… you know, regular folks. To that end, is there anywhere where kzak is running so we can just, you know, try it? It's interesting to hear about all the technologies behind the scenes and download code and all… but what does this thing do, actually?

With respect,

John

I am excited to try CarrierWave…

Mike, I think this is somewhat of a personal choice, and everyone has different opinions about authentication. I started using restful_authentication a long time ago, and I've had a lot of experience with it. At this point, I prefer not to use it because it generates a lot of application code, most of which is boilerplate. It also uses some constants that are stored in the plugin folder, so it's kind of a hybrid generator/plugin, which I also don't like. It also enforces one kind of authentication, and isn't based on something like Warden, which is meant to play well with other Rack apps you may be using. Devise also does a great job of staying out of the way, while still being very customizable. Devise also lets you have multiple "user" models (e.g. "user" and "admin" can be different and have different authentication methods).

I tried Authlogic a couple of times, and I immediately didn't like it. Primarily, I found the source difficult to follow, and I didn't like that it enabled model validations by default. I also saw a few tweets from people I respect saying that they ran into problems with it, and ended up finding it difficult to debug. I think the Warden/Devise combo is extremely easy to understand, and the source is easy to follow. So, if you run into a problem, you should be able to figure out what's going on.

Finally, it's a an actively maintained project with some really good and responsive people working on it. It's using the new style Engines, works nicely as a gem, and they say they're working on Rails 3 support as we speak. I'd say you should give it a try – I really doubt you'll be disappointed.

Mike H