With the recent announcement of the Facebook registration tool, there’s no doubt that you, the intrepid Rails developer, will be looking into it as a possible means of new user signup, either by choice or by client request. My preference has always been to limit an app’s dependence on Facebook as much as possible. I guess it’s a holdover from my hardcore OSS zealot days, or something — though I never had a hacker beard, I can’t help feeling there’s something inherently evil about Facebook (apart from their love affair with PHP ;)). Anyway, I recently implemented something very much like this feature using Devise and OmniAuth, so I thought I’d share.
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Monthly Archives: December 2010
An Alternative to the Facebook Registration Tool
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Dec 21, 2010
Announcing Figment!
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Hey all. I’d like to take a quick break from our regularly scheduled programming to announce the launch of a site that @toddbudnikas and I have been working hard on for a great client: Figment. Technically, this is a couple of days late — they launched on Monday but we’ve been busy tuning these past couple of days. About the site…
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Dec 8, 2010
About
I'm Ernie Miller. But then, you probably knew that by looking at the page title, or the URL. I'm a Ruby programmer in Louisville, Kentucky. This blog used to be called "metautonomo.us", which I thought was kind of clever, but nobody, including me, could type it. Lesson learned.