# technoweenie/restful-authentication

inactive project

Repository: https://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/restful-authentication
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2015-07-31T22:25:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6806, "days_push": 4051, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1564, forks 265 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:04.111499+00:00)

## What it is
A widely-used Ruby on Rails plugin/generator that provides a foundation for user authentication, including login/logout, secure password handling, email-based account activation, and admin approval. It also offers rudimentary hooks for authorization and access control.

## Use cases
- add login and logout to a rails app
- generate user authentication for rails
- handle secure password storage in ruby on rails
- implement email-based account activation
- add admin account approval and disabling
- add basic authorization hooks to a rails site

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Rails 2.x-era application already using this plugin
- studying historical Rails authentication patterns and security design tradeoffs

## When to avoid
- starting any new Rails project - use Devise, Rails 8 built-in authentication generator, or Rodauth instead
- you need maintained security updates or modern password hashing defaults
- you are on modern Rails versions incompatible with this old plugin

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: abandoned
- function: auth, authorization, security
- domain: web-development, security, backend
- platform: ruby
- tags: rails, authentication-generator, legacy, user-management, web-server

## Member repositories
- technoweenie/restful-authentication (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:04.111499+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:00:14.114656+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:04.111499+00:00, sha ee65a155ed62)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.