4 Provides a thin wrapper around the excellent ruby-openid gem from JanRan. Be sure to install that first:
6 gem install ruby-openid
8 To understand what OpenID is about and how it works, it helps to read the documentation for lib/openid/consumer.rb
11 The specification used is http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html.
17 OpenID authentication uses the session, so be sure that you haven't turned that off.
19 Alternatively, you can use the file-based store, which just relies on on tmp/openids being present in RAILS_ROOT. But be aware that this store only works if you have a single application server. And it's not safe to use across NFS. It's recommended that you use the database store if at all possible. To use the file-based store, you'll also have to add this line to your config/environment.rb:
21 OpenIdAuthentication.store = :file
23 This particular plugin also relies on the fact that the authentication action allows for both POST and GET operations.
24 If you're using RESTful authentication, you'll need to explicitly allow for this in your routes.rb.
26 The plugin also expects to find a root_url method that points to the home page of your site. You can accomplish this by using a root route in config/routes.rb:
28 map.root :controller => 'articles'
30 This plugin relies on Rails Edge revision 6317 or newer.
36 This example is just to meant to demonstrate how you could use OpenID authentication. You might well want to add
37 salted hash logins instead of plain text passwords and other requirements on top of this. Treat it as a starting point,
40 Note that the User model referenced in the simple example below has an 'identity_url' attribute. You will want to add the same or similar field to whatever
41 model you are using for authentication.
43 Also of note is the following code block used in the example below:
45 authenticate_with_open_id do |result, identity_url|
49 In the above code block, 'identity_url' will need to match user.identity_url exactly. 'identity_url' will be a string in the form of 'http://example.com' -
50 If you are storing just 'example.com' with your user, the lookup will fail.
52 There is a handy method in this plugin called 'normalize_url' that will help with validating OpenID URLs.
54 OpenIdAuthentication.normalize_url(user.identity_url)
56 The above will return a standardized version of the OpenID URL - the above called with 'example.com' will return 'http://example.com/'
57 It will also raise an InvalidOpenId exception if the URL is determined to not be valid.
58 Use the above code in your User model and validate OpenID URLs before saving them.
62 map.root :controller => 'articles'
66 app/views/sessions/new.erb
68 <% form_tag(session_url) do %>
70 <label for="name">Username:</label>
71 <%= text_field_tag "name" %>
75 <label for="password">Password:</label>
76 <%= password_field_tag %>
84 <label for="openid_identifier">OpenID:</label>
85 <%= text_field_tag "openid_identifier" %>
89 <%= submit_tag 'Sign in', :disable_with => "Signing in…" %>
93 app/controllers/sessions_controller.rb
94 class SessionsController < ApplicationController
97 open_id_authentication
99 password_authentication(params[:name], params[:password])
105 def password_authentication(name, password)
106 if @current_user = @account.users.authenticate(params[:name], params[:password])
109 failed_login "Sorry, that username/password doesn't work"
113 def open_id_authentication
114 authenticate_with_open_id do |result, identity_url|
115 if result.successful?
116 if @current_user = @account.users.find_by_identity_url(identity_url)
119 failed_login "Sorry, no user by that identity URL exists (#{identity_url})"
122 failed_login result.message
130 session[:user_id] = @current_user.id
131 redirect_to(root_url)
134 def failed_login(message)
135 flash[:error] = message
136 redirect_to(new_session_url)
142 If you're fine with the result messages above and don't need individual logic on a per-failure basis,
143 you can collapse the case into a mere boolean:
145 def open_id_authentication
146 authenticate_with_open_id do |result, identity_url|
147 if result.successful? && @current_user = @account.users.find_by_identity_url(identity_url)
150 failed_login(result.message || "Sorry, no user by that identity URL exists (#{identity_url})")
156 Simple Registration OpenID Extension
157 ====================================
159 Some OpenID Providers support this lightweight profile exchange protocol. See more: http://www.openidenabled.com/openid/simple-registration-extension
161 You can support it in your app by changing #open_id_authentication
163 def open_id_authentication(identity_url)
164 # Pass optional :required and :optional keys to specify what sreg fields you want.
165 # Be sure to yield registration, a third argument in the #authenticate_with_open_id block.
166 authenticate_with_open_id(identity_url,
167 :required => [ :nickname, :email ],
168 :optional => :fullname) do |result, identity_url, registration|
171 failed_login "Sorry, the OpenID server couldn't be found"
173 failed_login "Sorry, but this does not appear to be a valid OpenID"
175 failed_login "OpenID verification was canceled"
177 failed_login "Sorry, the OpenID verification failed"
179 if @current_user = @account.users.find_by_identity_url(identity_url)
180 assign_registration_attributes!(registration)
185 failed_login "Your OpenID profile registration failed: " +
186 @current_user.errors.full_messages.to_sentence
189 failed_login "Sorry, no user by that identity URL exists"
195 # registration is a hash containing the valid sreg keys given above
196 # use this to map them to fields of your user model
197 def assign_registration_attributes!(registration)
198 model_to_registration_mapping.each do |model_attribute, registration_attribute|
199 unless registration[registration_attribute].blank?
200 @current_user.send("#{model_attribute}=", registration[registration_attribute])
205 def model_to_registration_mapping
206 { :login => 'nickname', :email => 'email', :display_name => 'fullname' }
209 Attribute Exchange OpenID Extension
210 ===================================
212 Some OpenID providers also support the OpenID AX (attribute exchange) protocol for exchanging identity information between endpoints. See more: http://openid.net/specs/openid-attribute-exchange-1_0.html
214 Accessing AX data is very similar to the Simple Registration process, described above -- just add the URI identifier for the AX field to your :optional or :required parameters. For example:
216 authenticate_with_open_id(identity_url,
217 :required => [ :email, 'http://schema.openid.net/birthDate' ]) do |result, identity_url, registration|
219 This would provide the sreg data for :email, and the AX data for 'http://schema.openid.net/birthDate'
223 Copyright (c) 2007 David Heinemeier Hansson, released under the MIT license