[Radiant] Authentication again

[Sean Cribbs]

Marc,

Radiant is not designed to be community portal software, which would fit 
your use case better.  There is a community portal built with Rails but 
the name of it escapes me at the moment.

Sean

Marc Abouchacra wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
> First of all sory for my bad english (I'm french).
>
> So here is my problem :
> I'm doing a radiant application and I want to implement user
> authentication. Basicaly the application is a blog and people have to
> register in order to post/create new topic and comment (in fact it's a
> forum combined to a blog but that's not the problem).
>
> So I saw a lot of topic talking about authentication in radiant but none
> of them telling how to implement it or even if it's possible. Some of
> them tell us to use the web server HTTP authentication and others to
> implement an authentication system in rails.
>
> I thought about something but I don't know if it is possible or not (as
> I'm new in radiant and ruby on rails in general). My guess is to unpack
> the radiant source and use it as a basic rails app, then install the
> restfull_authentication plugin and finally use it in extensions. I
> started working on that but the more I'm working on it the more I'm
> thinking that I'm going on the wrong way!
>
> So my final question is : does anybody knows a simple way to implement
> the user authentication in radiant and if it's possible?
>
> Cheers
> Marc.
>