rails

For most applications authentication is a necessary evil and my current project is no exception. I always dread having to write the authentication logic in applications. Some frameworks have OK authentication plugins available but I always finding myself writing some piece of it before it's over with. I was really hoping to avoid that with rails and thanks to devise I have. It has everything I was looking for and more.

This is one place where rails really shines, the number of tutorials, screen casts, and other educational resources are second to none. I've been very impressed with both the quantity and quality of the free information available.

A large number of resources are cataloged here.

I've decided to try a new philosophy with this project, simplify my life, outsource the unimportant stuff. Instead of setting up a source repository on a server and configuring a hosting environment for my project I'm letting others do that work so I can concentrate on getting code written.