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not every rails application needs authentication.
by mtw 18y ago
not every rails application needs authentication.
- tptacek 18y agoI'm not sure what your point is, since every "serious" Rails app does need it, and even unserious web apps with "incidental" auth features can end up storing bank passwords.
- mtw 18y agoi beg to differ. here are "serious" websites that doesn't do user authentication: - google.com (the original search engine) - techmeme.com - wikipedia (the original version) - tinyurl I could probably find dozens of examples, but those are just the ones I could find on my toolbar. And yes, those are not specifically rails application, but they do prove that there are web applications without user authentication
- tptacek 18y agoOk, I'm not sure you've noticed the past few years of Intertubing, but Google has the second most coveted authentication token on the net. I'm not sure what a techmeme.com is, but I definitely know that Wikipedia has logins, and admin logins, and like 3 levels of authentication above that.
- michaelneale 18y agoI guess is any app of value will eventually need authentication. Otherwise why are you using rails? Apache + fast CMS would probably be better ;)