Revise Auth and Podcasting Plans

About this episode

Chris and David discuss Rails authentication, Chris's teaching experience, and podcasting news.

Chris and David cover a lot of ground in this episode, starting with Chris’s experience teaching a Rails workshop for Frontend Masters in Minneapolis. Along the way, they dive deep into Rails authentication, Devise, Authlogic migrations, Chris’s ReviseAuth gem, password security, session handling, and the hard tradeoffs of maintaining open source tools. The episode wraps with big podcasting news: David is taking over The Ruby on Rails Podcast! Hit download now to hear more! Links ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Oliver, David Hill

Topics covered

• Rails authentication
• Devise
• Authlogic migrations
• password security
• session handling
• open source tools
• podcasting news

Keywords

• Rails
• authentication
• Devise
• Authlogic
• ReviseAuth
• password security
• open source

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Frontend Masters, The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Products: ReviseAuth, Devise, Authlogic

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